Quentin Tarantino's R-Rated Star Trek Movie Was 'Bats*** Crazy,' Simon Pegg Says

Simon Pegg has described Quentin Tarantino's plans for an R-Rated Star Trek movie arsenic "bats*** crazy," and offered a hint of however helium thought the task mightiness person been received by fans — had it ever travel to be.

As unbelievable arsenic it mightiness sound, Tarantino was attached to nonstop a large surface Star Trek task for respective years, aft the Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction manager personally approached Paramount with an thought for a Captain Kirk spin-off.

But contempt years of enactment and a squad of writers moving connected the thought (including Twisters scribe Mark L. Smith and Iron Man 3 co-writer Drew Pearce), the task yet ne'er came to fruition — and Tarantino confirmed successful 2020 helium was nary longer connected board.

Now, speaking with Collider, Star Trek and Mission Impossible prima Simon Pegg has described the thought arsenic "everything you would expect a Quentin Tarantino Star Trek publication to be."

"That was what we telephone successful the concern bats*** crazy," helium continued, without divulging rather what the communicative of the movie would person entailed. "I deliberation it would person been specified an unthinkable benignant of curio to spot Star Trek done his lens. I don't cognize however it would person gone implicit with the fans, but it surely would person been an absorbing thing."

Details connected the task person ever remained hazy, though Mark L. Smith has antecedently hinted that the crippled would person progressive Captain Kirk and clip travel, with elements drawn from classical gangster movies. Meanwhile, Tarantino himself antecedently described it arsenic "Pulp Fiction successful space."

Despite galore Star Trek TV shows launching implicit the past decade, the franchise's aboriginal connected the large surface has remained acold much nebulous. The past due Star Trek movie to merchandise successful theaters was 2016's Star Trek Beyond, the 3rd and (currently) last successful the series' Kelvin reboot timeline, successful which Pegg starred arsenic Scotty.

Since then, galore ideas for further Star Trek films person been floated — including a drawstring of attempts astatine getting a 4th movie successful the reboot bid made, but to nary avail.

Earlier this twelvemonth past saw the motorboat of Star Trek: Section 31, a tv movie starring Michelle Yeoh's quality Philippa Georgiou from Star Trek: Discovery, albeit to powerfully antagonistic reviews. IGN's Section 31 reappraisal returned a 2/10 score, and described the task arsenic thing that would "infuriate Star Trek fans and bore everyone else."

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