Quentin Tarantino’s STAR TREK Film Will Be Rated R; THE REVENANT Screenwriter May Write It
Early this week, the crazy news hit that Quentin Tarantino was developing the next Star Trek film with J.J. Abrams. Tarantino came up with a story and he may actually end up directing it.
We’ve now learned from Deadline that this Star Trek Movie will be rated R, which is insane! I would have never thought in a million years that we would ever see an R rated Star Trek film, but according to the report:
Tarantino has required it to be R rated, and Paramount and Abrams agreed to that condition. Most mega budget tent poles restrict the film to a PG-13 rating in an effort to maximize the audience.
The report adds:
That rating was crucially important to Tarantino, who hopes to direct this Star Trek and who has helmed R rated films his entire career. Imagine how this could open storytelling lanes, or even what the banter on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise might be, if you conjure up memories of the conversations between Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta in Pulp Fiction, or the banter at the diner between robbers before the heist gone wrong that triggered the action in Reservoir Dogs.
Damn! This news just gets crazier and more unbelievable! I guess with the success of Deadpool and Logan, Paramount Pictures was a lot more open to an R-rated Trek film. The franchise will definitely boldly fu**ing go where it has never gone before.
The report goes on to say that the studio is in talks with Mark L. Smith to write the movie. Smith is the same screenwriter who wrote The Revenant, so you can bet the script is going to be amazing if they end up hiring him. The studio is also looking at screenwriters Lindsey Beer and Drew Pearce.
This project seems to be moving forward at warp speed and it’s hard not to be excited about what I’m hearing about this movie!
We are going to get a true hardcore R-rated Quentin Tarantino movie! What do you think of that!? Are you excited to see these classic characters represented in an R-rated manner?