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Quentin Tarantino and JJ Abrams Team Up For 'Star Trek' Movie (hollywoodreporter.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the bold-moves dept.

Quentin Tarantino reportedly has a pitch for a Star Trek film, and he has shared his vision with J.J. Abrams. According to Hollywood Reporter, "Tarantino and Abrams have plans to bring together a writers room to develop a film at Star Trek studio Paramount. Tarantino has an eye to direct the potential project." From the report: Abrams rebooted the franchise with 2009's Star Trek and also helmed 2013's Star Trek Into Darkness, before pivoting to Lucasfilm's Star Wars: The Force Awakens. He remains a producer on the Star Trek franchise even as he readies 2019's Star Wars: Episode IX. Paramount previously stated it was developing a fourth Star Trek film to star Chris Hemsworth as Captain Kirk's (Chris Pine) father, but no director has been attached and it's unclear where this Tarantino development leaves the project. The latest installment, Justin Lin's Star Trek Beyond (2016), was well-liked by critics but earned just $343.4 million worldwide, the lowest in the rebooted universe. In a 2015 Nerdist podcast interview, Tarantino revealed that he would be more likely to direct a Star Trek film over a Star Wars pic, noting he was a big fan of the original series.

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  1. Sound in page by qortra · · Score: 4, Insightful
    1. 1. Click on link
    2. 2. Immediately video starts playing back with sound
    3. 3. Leave page because fuck that.

    Can anybody suggest a good plugin that will ban sites that do that shit? I don't even want to show up in their daily-active-user count.

    1. Re:Sound in page by FrankHaynes · · Score: 3, Informative

      There's a setting buried in the Firefox "about:config" tree that stops autoplay of videos/media, but I don't remember what it's named right now. Search around there long enough you'll find it.

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    2. Re:Sound in page by lgw · · Score: 4, Funny

      There's probably something that could be done with your ... hosts file [wince].

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  2. Good movies, Terrible Star Trek by Excelcia · · Score: 5, Insightful

    JJ Treks are good movies, but terrible Star Trek. He took the original series, movies, animated series, and a few books put them in a blender and hit Frappe. What pops out is Star Trek for people with no attention span - it's like Star Trek Anime. The action sequences are ok, and as a turn off your brain light sci fi, I have to admit they are enjoyable. But they aren't Star Trek. JJ did the same with Star Wars, just took the original stories and recycled them with little innovation and nothing new. It's sad to see Trek raped that way.

    1. Re:Good movies, Terrible Star Trek by FrankHaynes · · Score: 5, Informative

      It's not Star Trek. It's a totally different movie that rips off the same character names to draw in long-time fans, but it's not recognizable to them. Fuck Abrams and his money grab.

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    2. Re:Good movies, Terrible Star Trek by JohnFen · · Score: 3, Insightful

      JJ Treks are good movies, but terrible Star Trek.

      A million times this. Abrams is precisely the wrong person to be making Star Trek movies. I find them aggressively objectionable.

      If, however, you took the same movies and didn't connect them to Star Trek, then they'd by OK. Not great, but fine.

    3. Re: Good movies, Terrible Star Trek by The+Good+Reverend · · Score: 3, Insightful

      It's different when it's a single (two-part) episode compared to a feature film. "Tin Man", "Hollow Pursuits" and "Sarek" (all high on character development) were all at the end of season three, just before BoBW. "Family" immediately followed.

      I don't think much of the TNG movies after Generations; they're just shoot-em-ups, with Worf (and Data) in comic foil roles. The Abrams movies are action movies wearing a Star Trek mask.

  3. Another Spoiler Alert! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Star Trek is very liberal. You can count on Chekov being arrested in the movie and accused of meddling in electing the next president of the Federation.

    1. Re:Another Spoiler Alert! by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 5, Funny

      They could bring on a certain Pavla Chekova and claim she had a genetic sex change. That ticks almost all the boxes!

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  4. Captain Jules Winnfield by PopeRatzo · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am 100% behind Quentin Tarantino directing Star Trek if it means Samuel L. Jackson will be playing the captain of the Enterprise with a jheri curl.

    "I said...BEAM ME UP MOTHERFUCKER!"

    https://youtu.be/9wEnb9yIoes

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    1. Re:Captain Jules Winnfield by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      "Vulcan, motherfucker. Do you speak it?"

    2. Re:Captain Jules Winnfield by Jahoda · · Score: 4, Funny

      I was actually thinking more along the lines of "SAY KHAN AGAIN"

  5. Good by sexconker · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is good, because I don't plan on watching it.

    Everything JayJay touches is shit. Everything Quentin touches is over the top and ridiculous not for any point, not for any stylistic effect, and not even for the sake of being over the top or gratuitous, but simply so you will know Quentin is behind it.

  6. Dialogue I want to hear by ngc5194 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Here are some lines of dialogue I want to hear from this movie:

    Being 1: "You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with cheese on Qonos?"
    Being 2: "They don't call it a Quarter Pounder with cheese?"
    Being 1: "No man, they have a different system of measurement in the Klingon Empire, they use kellicams to measure distance and shit."
    Being 2: "Then what do they call it?"
    Being 1: "It's a loQ cheb with cheese, only they don't eat it with cheese. Klingons don't like cheese because it doesn't move."
    Being 2: "LoQ cheb with cheese. What do they call a Big Mac?"
    Being 1: "A Big Mac's a Big Mac, but they serve it with a side of gagh."

  7. Re:another slashdot loser by PopeRatzo · · Score: 4, Funny

    with a hollow meaningless life, whose only joy comes from getting exploited by hollywood

    What can I say? I am a simple man. But at least I was able to figure out how to get a Slashdot account.

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  8. It's over: Star Trek as a genre is DEAD. by Rick+Schumann · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's total chaos, it's unwatchable, and it's time to just admit it: It's dead, Jim. It's all artificially Star Trek-flavored, complete with trans-fats, FD&C Red #2, and NutraSweet, and a mandatory carcinogen warning label if sold in California.

  9. To be fair... by JBMcB · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... like any genre, most anime is pretty bad. I noticed this back when it was really taking off in the US. I used to go to a monthly anime screening at a college near me and they'd show a couple of decent movies and a few episodes of a good TV series all hand-subtitled by the Japanese club's members. After a few years it devolved into, maybe, one decent movie or OVA, and a slew of shlocky romantic comedy, high school students fighting demons, or DBZ knockoff TV shows. The last screening I went to they played a few episodes from three different TV series that were all vampire high school romantic drama/comedies. I gave them a chance and, except for a few scenes of well done animation that I'm sure ate up most of their budgets, they were all garbage.

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