“Quentin Tarantino went in to J.J. [Abrams]’s offices and pitched him an idea for a Star Trek movie," Karl Urban told the assembled crowd at Upstate New York’s Trekonderoga convention. "I know a little bit about what that is, and it’s bananas.”
(DIGRESSION. I wonder. How would Urban's definition of "bananas" line up with mine or yours? Would it mean crossing Trek not just with a mirror universe but with a multiverse like the one depicted on “Rick & Morty”? Kirk, Spock and McCoy stumbling not into one, but dozens or hundreds of them? Maybe there’s an interdimensional war with the Guardian of Forever at stake, so time travel also becomes part of the equation. Maybe they team with mirror William Shatner or with captains Lorca, Pike and Jellico, and Garak, Sarek, T’Pol and Voyager’s Emergency Medical Hologram. Maybe maybe maybe. END DIGRESSION.)
Urban also suggested the R-rating Tarantino wants for his Trek movie has more to do with interstellar gore than f-bombs:
“You shouldn’t worry that it is going to be full of obscenity and stuff. He wants an R-rating to really make those beats of consequence land. If it’s not PG, if someone gets sucked out into space, which we have all seen before, we might see them get disemboweled first…It allows some some breadth…gives him some leeway to do that.”
Urban confirmed at the same event that Tarantino’s plan for his years-away Trek movie is to utilize much of the cast introduced in J.J. Abrams’ 2009 Star Trek movie.
Of course, there still might first be the far more cheap-sounding proposed non-Tarantino Chris Hemsworth Trek movie. For the Hemsworth project, Paramount hopes to save money by hiring a director who has never directed a movie before and two untested screenwriters who also have no big-screen credits.
Paramount also reportedly wants to save even more money asking Hemsworth and Pine to take pay cuts, but the representatives of Hemsworth and Pine (both actors employ the same talent agency) may be steering the actors instead toward better-paying non-Trek projects.
Still, Urban says he’s been in touch with Pine* and Pine says – notwithstanding the salary disputes – he’s keen to rejoin Urban and the other Trek regulars for the penny-pinching Trek sequel to be directed by S.J. Clarkson (“The Defenders,” “Succession”).
(*Urban, Pine and other members of the cast apparently bonded in British Columbia when the Trek movie franchise stopped shooting in Los Angeles and moved to Canada for “Star Trek Beyond.”)
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