Screenwriter Mark L. Smith has revealed why Quentin Tarantino turned down his R-rated version of the Star Trek movie
Mark L. Smith who wrote the script for Quentin Tarantino film "Star Trek" told why the picture was never filmed.
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Many people know that Tarantino is a very demanding director, especially when it comes to the films he intends to release in his name.
His latest work is set to be Movie Critic, which will be released in 2025, but it once seemed possible that the R-rated Star Trek could be the final act of his career.
Smith explained that he developed a script with Tarantino for the "real" ''Star Trek'' film, but the director turned it down because he wanted something more meaningful as his last film:
"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."
By talking about 'number of films' Smith was referring to Tarantino's 'set-up', which he apparently follows responsibly. The director has often said that he intends to make only 10 good films.
While many directors continue to work behind the camera and make many more, Tarantino believes that the more films he makes, the more likely it is that there will be some not-so-good ones among them.
For this reason, Movie Critic will be his tenth and final directorial effort before he finally leaves this line of work in Hollywood.
"Movie Critic" is scheduled to premiere in late 2024/early 2025.
Source: MovieWeb
