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Quentin Tarantino says his ideal version of Star Trek would be ‘Pulp Fiction in space’
Quentin Tarantino has responded to rumours that he is directing a new version of Star Trek, saying his ideal version would be “Pulp Fiction in space”.The Once Upon a Time in Hollywood director is rumoured to be working with JJ Abrams on a new version of the sci-fi classic.“I will say one thing about Star Trek that I’ve been waiting for someone to bring up,” Tarantino told Deadline. “I don’t know if I’ll do it or not. I’ve got to figure it out, but Mark [L Smith] wrote a really cool script. I like it a lot.“There’s some things I need to work on but I really, really liked it. I get annoyed at Simon Pegg. He doesn’t know anything about what’s going on and he keeps making all these comments as if he knows about stuff. “One of the comments he said, he’s like, ‘Well, look, it’s not going to be Pulp Fiction in space.’ Yes, it is! If I do it, that’s exactly what it’ll be. It’ll be Pulp Fiction in space.”Tarantino added: “That Pulp Fiction-y aspect, when I read the script, I felt, I have never read a science fiction movie that has this s*** in it, ever. There’s no science fiction movie that has this in it. And they said, ‘I know, that’s why we want to make it.’ It’s, at the very least, unique in that regard.”The director previously said a Star Trek film would be his final movie. "I actually think, if I was going to do Star Trek, I should commit to it," he told CinemaBlend. "It’s my last movie."Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is out in UK cinemas on 14 August 2019.
Quentin Tarantino has regularly claimed that he intends to retire after making 10 films, and has revealed that if his much-rumoured reboot of Star Trek gets off the ground, he won’t exploit a loophole in his pledge and will in fact retire right after.
Speaking to CinemaBlend about his forthcoming ninth film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Tarantino explained that his own Star Trek movie is still in the works, and that it will count towards his total of films if it ends up being made.
“I guess I do have a loophole, [if] the idea was to throw a loophole into it,” Tarantino said. “Which would be [to go], ‘Uhhh, I guess Star Trek doesn’t count. I can do Star Trek… but naturally I would end on an original.’
“But the idea of doing 10 isn’t to come up with a loophole,” he continued. “I actually think, if I was going to do Star Trek, I should commit to it. It’s my last movie. There should be nothing left handed about it. I don’t know if I’m going to do that, but that might happen.”
Tarantino successfully pitched an R-rated Star Trek movie to Paramount Pictures and producer JJ Abrams in 2017, that he would direct if it were to be made, though the studio has yet to officially greenlight the film. It would be Tarantino’s first franchise movie.
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