Quentin Tarantino and JJ Abrams Team Up For 'Star Trek' Movie (hollywoodreporter.com) 228
Quentin Tarantino reportedly has a pitch for a Star Trek film, and he has shared his vision with J.J. Abrams. According to Hollywood Reporter, "Tarantino and Abrams have plans to bring together a writers room to develop a film at Star Trek studio Paramount. Tarantino has an eye to direct the potential project." From the report: Abrams rebooted the franchise with 2009's Star Trek and also helmed 2013's Star Trek Into Darkness, before pivoting to Lucasfilm's Star Wars: The Force Awakens. He remains a producer on the Star Trek franchise even as he readies 2019's Star Wars: Episode IX. Paramount previously stated it was developing a fourth Star Trek film to star Chris Hemsworth as Captain Kirk's (Chris Pine) father, but no director has been attached and it's unclear where this Tarantino development leaves the project. The latest installment, Justin Lin's Star Trek Beyond (2016), was well-liked by critics but earned just $343.4 million worldwide, the lowest in the rebooted universe. In a 2015 Nerdist podcast interview, Tarantino revealed that he would be more likely to direct a Star Trek film over a Star Wars pic, noting he was a big fan of the original series.
Does Kirk LOOK like a BITCH? (Score:2, Funny)
Say "Dilithium" one more god damned time!
Sound in page (Score:5, Insightful)
Can anybody suggest a good plugin that will ban sites that do that shit? I don't even want to show up in their daily-active-user count.
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There's probably something that could be done with your ... hosts file [wince].
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More to the point, while I could use my hosts file, I would still need a mechanism to keep it up-to-date with all sites that auto-play audio. Self maintenance would mean that I would have to visit most offending sites at least once, whereas I would like to keep that number mu
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Guess we caught him sleeping, or perhaps it's because no one mentioned ad blockers.
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Re:Sound in page (Score:4, Informative)
There's a setting buried in the Firefox "about:config" tree that stops autoplay of videos/media, but I don't remember what it's named right now. Search around there long enough you'll find it.
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media.autoplay.enabled
NoScript (Score:3)
Blocks all of that crap. I once loaded a news site I frequent in another browser and laughed at all of the garbage that popped up and ate up screen real estate. With NoScript the site doesn't look as pretty but it's far more usable.
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Can anybody suggest a good plugin that will ban sites that do that shit? I don't even want to show up in their daily-active-user count.
On any chrome-based browser: chrome://flags then scroll down to Autoplay policy and select "Document user activation is required"
Good movies, Terrible Star Trek (Score:5, Insightful)
JJ Treks are good movies, but terrible Star Trek. He took the original series, movies, animated series, and a few books put them in a blender and hit Frappe. What pops out is Star Trek for people with no attention span - it's like Star Trek Anime. The action sequences are ok, and as a turn off your brain light sci fi, I have to admit they are enjoyable. But they aren't Star Trek. JJ did the same with Star Wars, just took the original stories and recycled them with little innovation and nothing new. It's sad to see Trek raped that way.
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Re:Good movies, Terrible Star Trek (Score:5, Informative)
It's not Star Trek. It's a totally different movie that rips off the same character names to draw in long-time fans, but it's not recognizable to them. Fuck Abrams and his money grab.
Re:Good movies, Terrible Star Trek (Score:4, Insightful)
JJ Treks are good movies, but terrible Star Trek.
A million times this. Abrams is precisely the wrong person to be making Star Trek movies. I find them aggressively objectionable.
If, however, you took the same movies and didn't connect them to Star Trek, then they'd by OK. Not great, but fine.
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The last one was okay, but the first two were pretty terrible. The first one was like an interrogation with a light shined in your eyes the whole time, and the second one had to add in fake CGI tears.
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Whaaat? The last one was the worst. That's the one where they worried that a ship might not stand up to the stresses of being flown through the atmosphere before literally using it like a bulldozer for the remainder of the movie, and then they killed a swarm of Zerg with Beastie Boys music.
The first JJ Trek was decent, the second one was OK. I can accept a Star Trek-themed popcorn action flick, but it should be a good action flick.
Re: Good movies, Terrible Star Trek (Score:4, Insightful)
It's different when it's a single (two-part) episode compared to a feature film. "Tin Man", "Hollow Pursuits" and "Sarek" (all high on character development) were all at the end of season three, just before BoBW. "Family" immediately followed.
I don't think much of the TNG movies after Generations; they're just shoot-em-ups, with Worf (and Data) in comic foil roles. The Abrams movies are action movies wearing a Star Trek mask.
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That's what The Best of Both Worlds was, and you loved it.
I loved it? I think that your mind-reading machine is on the fritz.
Re: Good movies, Terrible Star Trek (Score:2)
Nope nope nope. (Score:2)
Star Trek Into Plot Holes was not a good movie by any definition. It was miserable. Utter trash. No, it was not enjoyable.
On the other hand, saying "well this may be a Good Movie by the standards of the non-trekkie unwashed masses, but it just doesn't live up to the high standards and tradition of excellence that is Star Trek" is rather strange. General consensus is that at least half of the pre-Abrams Star Trek movies are dreadful too. I don't know that any of them were quite as bad as Into Plot Holes, but
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> On the other hand, saying "well this may be a Good Movie by the standards of the non-trekkie unwashed masses
I don't think that was the point of the original comment.
For instance Star Trek the Motion Picture is a really good "Trek movie" but a pretty bad "movie".
It's just that the action movies of JJ are so divorced from the Trek mythos that they don't scratch the Trek itch.
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JJ Treks are good movies, but terrible Star Trek..
They weren't even "good movies" to be honest. Certainly not Star Trek, but even if you rebadged it something else like "Star Voyage" they were still pretty bad films with terrible dialogue, ridiculous plots, and poorly directed.
The first "JJ Trek" film was OK compared to the other two he made. The other two were just dire.
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too clean
Tarantino can probably help with that part. Give him some play and the finale will be a seedy hold in the bottom of some pirate space ship filled with sacks of space dope and a bunch of astonished, half naked female bad persons that blast each into bloody chunks spinning in zero g, all in slow motion.
Sounds like a plan.
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As soon as I saw the name "Tarantino", I found myself imagining the impetuous Kirk reimagined as a psycho, beating Spock to a bloody pulp for no reason other than because he looked at Uhura the wrong way. Then, three of Spock's Vulcan buddies beat Kirk up and lock him in the hold of a ship in orbit around a dead moon. The rest of the crew go to save him and get killed horribly one by one, leaving only Sulu, angry and hating the entire universe, barely even alive, left for dead. Yet somehow, he manages t
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I'd watch that.
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It'll be interesting to see what futuristic space racial slurs Tarantino invents to pepper the dialogue with.
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The women's outfits were no more revealing than what you would see on high-street in the day. Very short, but not showing too much up top. Certainly going for a "sexy" look, but nothing extreme.
I don't think Kirk ever nailed them. He kissed a bunch of them, and fell in love with them... sure... but there was little to no suggestion that he managed to actually boink them.
To be fair... (Score:5, Insightful)
... like any genre, most anime is pretty bad. I noticed this back when it was really taking off in the US. I used to go to a monthly anime screening at a college near me and they'd show a couple of decent movies and a few episodes of a good TV series all hand-subtitled by the Japanese club's members. After a few years it devolved into, maybe, one decent movie or OVA, and a slew of shlocky romantic comedy, high school students fighting demons, or DBZ knockoff TV shows. The last screening I went to they played a few episodes from three different TV series that were all vampire high school romantic drama/comedies. I gave them a chance and, except for a few scenes of well done animation that I'm sure ate up most of their budgets, they were all garbage.
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Computer animation has allowed a lot of animated crap to be produced and as computers grow in capability, so the volume of animated content will increase and quite dramatically. It will completely undercut live acted content, it just wont be able to compete the with sheer volume of animated material. Think virtual robots, doing the acting and that includes scenery objects as well as the actors. Basically script engineer an animated work and the computer will generate the animations based upon the models pro
Johnny Depp (Score:2)
Captain Jules Winnfield (Score:5, Funny)
I am 100% behind Quentin Tarantino directing Star Trek if it means Samuel L. Jackson will be playing the captain of the Enterprise with a jheri curl.
"I said...BEAM ME UP MOTHERFUCKER!"
https://youtu.be/9wEnb9yIoes [youtu.be]
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"Vulcan, motherfucker. Do you speak it?"
Re:Captain Jules Winnfield (Score:5, Funny)
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I like how you think.
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Yep, I'd watch that movie.
Re:another slashdot loser (Score:5, Funny)
What can I say? I am a simple man. But at least I was able to figure out how to get a Slashdot account.
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Don't be so mad. Life is too short.
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These guys think they are Jesus.
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with a hollow meaningless life, whose only joy comes from getting exploited by hollywood
Well someone's a grumpy little bear this morning.
First question (Score:2)
Who accidentally gets shot in the back seat of a shuttle craft? And will Star Trek language will go where no language has gone before? Far beyond that one swear in Discovery...
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You know what they call a Big Mac on Rigel?
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And will Star Trek language will go where no language has gone before?
tlhIngnan'e' Hol, petaQ! Dajatlh'a' jay'?!
Despise both these directors (Score:2, Informative)
I must be severely out of step with my generation, but I despise both these guys and with the amount their films gets rubbed in my face, it's with a passion.
Now I'm a Trek fan that hates nuTrek, this is like a double whammy of crappiness, where nuTrek delves even deeper into mindless action. I didn't think it was possible.
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I don't totally despise JJ Trek and even I think this is a bad idea.
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I love tarintino but tend to agree. Nothing about this makes sense.
It may be interesting to see him completely outside of his wheelhouse though.
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In all other respects, Quentin Tarantino can be a social goof, b
Fuck it. (Score:3)
Good (Score:5, Interesting)
This is good, because I don't plan on watching it.
Everything JayJay touches is shit. Everything Quentin touches is over the top and ridiculous not for any point, not for any stylistic effect, and not even for the sake of being over the top or gratuitous, but simply so you will know Quentin is behind it.
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Man you must be fun at parties.
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The problem with a lot of Tarantino stuff is that it's just an inferior knock-off of the thing he is paying homage to. Kill Bill was a low point for that, but all of his work suffers from it to some extent.
Let Quentin Tarantino do one or two (Score:3)
Then have John Woo do the next couple after that. Too bad Peckinpah isn't around, though.
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Can't wait to see Kirk sliding down a staircase with phasers in both hands, shooting Klingons as doves fly around.
Dialogue I want to hear (Score:5, Funny)
Here are some lines of dialogue I want to hear from this movie:
Being 1: "You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with cheese on Qonos?"
Being 2: "They don't call it a Quarter Pounder with cheese?"
Being 1: "No man, they have a different system of measurement in the Klingon Empire, they use kellicams to measure distance and shit."
Being 2: "Then what do they call it?"
Being 1: "It's a loQ cheb with cheese, only they don't eat it with cheese. Klingons don't like cheese because it doesn't move."
Being 2: "LoQ cheb with cheese. What do they call a Big Mac?"
Being 1: "A Big Mac's a Big Mac, but they serve it with a side of gagh."
Tarantino Trek (Score:3)
Things to look out for when Tarantino boldly goes where no director has gone before:
- Mexican stand off in space.
- "N" word. Has it been abolished a few hundred years from now?
- Samuel L. Jackson goes from Jedi to Klingon
- Uma. In spandex. Paying homage to Duran Duran.
- The resurrection of a long forgotten film star.
Add some of your own below.
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Not the pop group. The movie with Jane Fonda
"Duran Duran" -> Barbarella
Re:Barbarella (Score:2)
Milo O'Shea didn't wear spandex in that film. He didn't need it. He had the eyebrows.
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> Samuel L. Jackson goes from Jedi to Klingon
Reminds me of this classic:
Subject: Star Wars
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Subject: The TOP 10 Things We Want To Hear Samuel L. Jackson, "JediMaster
Mace Windu," say in the Star Wars Prequel.
10. You don't need to see my goddamn identification, 'cause these ain't the
motherfuckin' droids you're looking for.
9. Womp rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'll never know, 'cause I wouldn't
eat the filthy motherfucker.
8. This is your father's lightsaber. Whe
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- Covert foot fetish scenes
- Phasers now cause gory deaths
A full movie length STD? (Score:2)
Aliens. Really bad aliens that don't want to be invaded by humans.
Someone in the crew is problematic and has to be reeducated.
People in the chain of command are also very problematic and they all have to be reeducated.
The fictional character will plan, fight and win the long war with aliens.
The bad aliens will have a peace treaty dictated to them so lots of humans can fly over a new tourist attraction.
It's over: Star Trek as a genre is DEAD. (Score:4, Funny)
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Discovery is good. It's got a compelling story, interesting characters, some new direction to make Trek fresh but also still very much grounded in the established universe.
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Mod parent up!
I watched through the first episodes of STD (or whatever the short for Discovery is, STD sure feels fitting) as well as The Orville. In my opinion, The Orville may not bear any of the names from ST, but has all the spirit. Discovery has it backwards - pure action without soul.
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It physically can't be any worse than ST:D (Score:3)
J.J. keeps destroying the ship, so ... (Score:2)
Devil's Advocate (Score:2)
However, part of me thinks this would be great because Tarantino's strength is making solid movies with interesting and compelling plots while at the same time paying homage to old movie styles and in the process coming up with a great example of the same.
For example Kill Bill is a really great movie in the st
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OTOH he extracts great performances from actors, writes intelligent dialog, is a master at building tension and isn't afraid to make a left turn, all qualities sorely lacking in the current Trek movies.
Quit Screwing Around (Score:2)
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Abrams? Tarentino? Let's stop playing around and go straight to the bottom of the barrel. if we're going to hire talentless hacks to dig up Rodenderry's skull and do nasty things to his skull, let's go directly to the Master of No-Talent Directing, Uwe Bol.
And then, the coup de grace of all dares, the sinister triple-Bol-dare. Shogun37 created a slight breach of etiquette by skipping the Shymalan triple dare and going right for the throat!
Quentin Tarantino totally looks like... (Score:2)
Quentin Tarantino seems to be morphing into Jim Broadbent.
I am ok with this on one condition... (Score:2)
I am ok with this just as long as the film ends with a mexican stand-off where the entire Star Trek cast gets permanently wiped out (and starting with Kirk), just think Reservoir Dogs in space, but on a grander scale.
Hemsworth is younger than Pine... (Score:2)
to star Chris Hemsworth as Captain Kirk's (Chris Pine) father
Chris Pine: 37
Chris Hemsworth: 34
I really hate revisionist plot lines. Kirk's father did a suicide run to save people in the first movie. I guess we'll find out in this one that he actually escaped at the last minute and travelled through time with the Romulans in the first movie, but for some very convincing reason he didn't show up in the plot until this 4th movie.
Another Spoiler Alert! (Score:4, Funny)
Star Trek is very liberal. You can count on Chekov being arrested in the movie and accused of meddling in electing the next president of the Federation.
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I don't think you can count on Chekov being in the movie period.....
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Walter Koenig in drag. Put him blackface too, and I honestly can't see how we can't end up making bank from the diversity crowd.
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Khan!!!!!
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I recently accidentally watched a Tarantino film. See I generally don't recognize him except as "That guy who is always in some shitty movie" so I didn't think to just turn it off. I spent 2 hours wondering where the plot was... if there was a plot etc... somehow the guy mixes almost French soap opera style drama with completely gratuitous violence and some inanely stupid "didn't you see this coming?" kind of toss in.
I
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Tarantino films universally lack any form of intelligence.
They heavily draw on existing material but there's clearly value add and his early work was put together very intelligently, even if the films themselves were very accessible.
I spent 2 hours wondering where the plot was... if there was a plot etc...
Interesting. Which film was it?
See I generally don't recognize him except as "That guy who is always in some shitty movie" so I didn't think to just turn it off.
Wait? You think of Tarantino as an actor in shitty films but also think Tarantino films lack intelligence?
It seems you're suggesting that you class a film as a Tarantino film if he's acting in it, unlike the rest of the planet who would generally prioritise the films he's written and/or directed. He does
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Oh, I see. You just don't have a fucking clue. Where the fuck is the porn (parody or otherwise) in Reservoir Dogs, True Romance or Hateful Eight?
I think he is talking about the writing style. Tarantino's plots may not have "porn" in them, but they're really poorly written and the story is about as relevant as a story from a porn parody.
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That certainly is one way to look at it. You shall permit me to think they have a form of intelligence you just lack the imagination to recognize... Or lack the form itself altogether.
I bet you wouldn't get Metallica songs either. Some things just speak through the atmosphere they create, man. If you keep looking for direct in your face meaning in everything, you might miss the most profoundly moving experiences altogether.
That being said it's still JJ Abrams and Tarantino might manage to get Uma Thurman in
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Tarantino and JJ Abrams are the two worse "big name" producers in Hollywood. Abrams is king of the cheesy and unrealistic. No matter how big a budget he has his pictures always have a very "cheap" feel to them. They feel like cheap acting and production... almost like bad fanfics (even when he is doing something "original".
I think your observation of Tarantino is spot on; although, I would add that he also has long stretches of mundane boringness in his flicks. Stretches where the characters talk about
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Accusations of bigory can't fix this tire fire. (Score:2)
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I'll bait the Startrek fans instead:
Can't wait for the Hattori Hanzo laserswords. (GDARVVF)
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I'll bait the Startrek fans instead:
Can't wait for the Hattori Hanzo laserswords. (GDARVVF)
Damn you! I was gong to post that. You took the words right off my keyboard!
Uma Thurman (a.k.a The Bride), somehow is frozen in cryo-stasis and re-awakens in the 23 century looking for Bee-Bee's great-great-great grandchild. She discovers that the child has been kidnapped by the Romulans and watch the green bloodbath while she slices and dices her way to her objective.
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I'm hoping for a Edosian standoff. That's where each party has phasers pointed at at least three others parties and none of them are able to safely withdraw unilaterally.
I'll show myself out.
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You forgot Jaws the Seventh Awakening.
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Cattlestar Galactica, a story about humanities last hold, running away from an army of superior robot cattle.
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Don't forget Sharknado 2018. I'm sure there's some witty pun they'll toss in the real title like Sharknado 6: Irma Gonna Eat You.
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JJ Abrams Trek is better than Michal Bay Transformers
Since sawing off your own penis with a rusty breadknife is better than Michael Bay's Transformers, this is really not saying much.