Quentin Tarantino’s Star Trek Co-Writer Explained Working On The Movie, And Why It Didn’t Happen

Star Trek is a huge franchise, one that has included some of the best sci-fi movies of all time. While there’s plenty of new TV content available for those with a Paramount+ subscription, the franchise’s future on the big screen remains a mystery. For a while the great Quentin Tarantino was developing a Star Trek movie, although that seems to have been left by the wayside. His co-writer Mark L. Smith recently spoke about working on that movie, and why it ultimately didn’t work out. 

Trekkies new and are always keeping track of the upcoming Star Trek movie and TV shows, so there was a ton of chatter surrounding Tarantino’s interest in making his own. Smith spoke to Collider about his experience working on the script, peeling back the curtain on what the Kill Bill filmmaker was thinking at the moment. In his words:

It was a different thing, but this was such a particular different type of story that Quentin wanted to tell with it that it fit my kind of sensibilities. So I wrote that, Quentin and I went back and forth, he was gonna do some stuff on it, and then he started worrying about the number, his kind of unofficial number of films. I remember we were talking, and he goes, ‘If I can just wrap my head around the idea that Star Trek could be my last movie, the last thing I ever do. Is this how I want to end it?’ And I think that was the bump he could never get across, so the script is still sitting there on his desk. I know he said a lot of nice things about it. I would love for it to happen. It’s just one of those that I can’t ever see happening. But it would be the greatest Star Trek film, not for my writing, but just for what Tarantino was gonna do with it. It was just a balls-out kind of thing.

 

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