Quentin Tarantino and J.J. Abrams Are Making an R-Rated “Star Trek”

So Quentin will film his scenes in 5 different lenses and have them in the desert.

JJ will film only in outer space using slomo's, rotating cameras, EXPLOSIONS, REPEAT OF THE SAME EXPLOSIONS and plaster Advertising everywhere. Now the crew drinks Mountain Dew and they use Lenovo tablets!
Not sure I get either reference.
Sir Patrick Stewart said that he would reprise his role as Picard given the change to work with Tarantino, whom he's always wanted to work with, for what reason I don't know....

So based on that, I would assume it would be TNG universe, don't know about the other cast members though.
Didn’t know that, pretty cool. And at a guess he likely wants to work with Tarantino because like or hate he is a well known director with a certain flair and style. That can attract actors regardless of their typical roles. (E.g. Brad Pitt in Burn After Reading. Very different from his normal type of movie role, but Cohen bros.)
everyone acknowledges that sex sells but for a Star Wars movie? I thought their fan base was large enough to easily fund the next movie sequel? In the first movie the Princess did show some skin but today R rating seems to mean soft porn

like what?

Well firstly Star Trek movie not Star Wars.

Secondly R rating doesn’t really mean soft porn. R rating can literally be because of two F-bombs. I think PG-13 is only allowed a single “Fuck”
 
Looks like another Star Trek I won't bother watching.

At is rate I might have to got back to reading all my old books.
 
They could name it "STAR TREK: BACKGROUND. What really happens off screen in the Star Trek world". Then it could be setup like a Pulp Fiction movie.
 
As long as the acting setting plot don't suck I don't think they can even compete with anything Patrick Stewart did on the Next Generation. Holly Wierd movies are always too serious and they are not fun to watch I haven"t watched tV in about 9 years though.
 
The problem I have is that R-rated when needed is fine. Logan and Dead pool did good with being R-rated. But then there is making something R rated just for the sake of being R rated to be "cool" and normally that just makes it into shit.

I don't really see where making Star Trek r-rated is going do anything good for the series. What have they not done in any pervious movie / story that they think is being impacted by not being R rated that will improve everything?
 
The problem I have is that R-rated when needed is fine. Logan and Dead pool did good with being R-rated. But then there is making something R rated just for the sake of being R rated to be "cool" and normally that just makes it into shit.

I don't really see where making Star Trek r-rated is going do anything good for the series. What have they not done in any pervious movie / story that they think is being impacted by not being R rated that will improve everything?
Logan wasn’t even as good as other marvel movies. It didn’t need to be R to tell that story. They’ve done fine portraying wolverines nature without showing the guts ripped wide open over and over that they portrayed in Logan. If I want to watch a slasher flick there’s plenty of those to chose from.

Maybe its just me —- I just looked up Logan on Rotten tomatoes and it’s well scored.
 
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A movie around Section 31 would fit as basis around it. Dark shady underground
 
I wish they do something with the Klingons they introduced in Into Darkness. Best vision of Klingons yet. Too awesome to just leave on the table like that., and that movie was kick ass all around.
 
Logan wasn’t even as good as other marvel movies. It didn’t need to be R to tell that story. They’ve done fine portraying wolverines nature without showing the guts ripped wide open over and over that they portrayed in Logan. If I want to watch a slasher flick there’s plenty of those to chose from.

Maybe its just me —- I just looked up Logan on Rotten tomatoes and it’s well scored.

It wasn't just you. Very overrated film.
 
Paramount have really screwed the pooch with the whole Star trek universe they built upon with decades of episodes/lore. Prequalitis and then reboot mania with JJ.

I've really not enjoyed anything since the TNG era. Enterprise was ok-ish. But the new JJ stuff is just short term fluff for distraction. Discovery seems entertaining despite being in the whole reboot thing.... I'm sure they will handicap it even further at some point....I hope Tarantino is a big enough fan to somehow reset to the original template. Wishful I know....
 
Star Trek is about story. The reboot tried to make it just another action flick complete with beasty boys and gas powered motorcycles in space.

Sigh

Now that wasn’t dumb enough - they need to turn it into a grind house flick?



Yeah I’m out. I’ll just watch the old reruns.
 
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Quentin once said he only intends to direct something like 10 movies because he feels thats all he has in him. He doesnt want to ruin his legacy pumping out films until he finally makes a turd, so he's just going to "quit while he's ahead". I can see an R-rated star trek as being one such failure to finish an otherwise illustrious career on.
 
Fault Quentin Tarantino for many things.
For me its
#1 - Harvey Weinstein
#2 - After watching an interview with him I realized that he is all his characters.
Now I cannot watch any of his movies without seeing or hearing his face or voice.
 
like what?
Evil Dead (2013)
Don't Breathe
District 9
Elysium
Chappie
Logan
Annabelle (Series)
Baby Driver
Get Out
The Hitman's Bodyguard
It (2017)
Saw (Series; Saw III had one scene with nudity)
Resident Evil (Series; first movie had an exposed nipple [gasp!] near the beginning and brief full nudity at the end)
The Disappointments Room
Green Room
Hacksaw Ridge
Morgan
The Conjuring (Series)
The Purge (Series)
Southbound
The Belko Experiment
Hitman: Agent 47
Mad Max: Fury Road
Sinister (Series)
Underworld (Series)

Just a sampling of R-rated movies I've seen. If any of them had nudity that I didn't mention, I couldn't remember. Besides, I consider the use of "T&A" to say it is put in the film without reason, or it is one of the central themes.
 
Well, that should pretty much put an end to Star Trek. At least it had a good run.
 
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