{"id":1957062,"date":"2025-08-13T00:45:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T00:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1957062"},"modified":"2025-08-13T00:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T00:45:16","slug":"it-was-everything-youd-expect-a-tarantino-star-trek-script-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/it-was-everything-youd-expect-a-tarantino-star-trek-script-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"It was everything you\u2019d expect a Tarantino Star Trek script to be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"\" data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><i>When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\" Simon Pegg as Scotty in Star Trek. \" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/BVQPFh_wLovouU41aCkbHA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTU0MDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/total_film_411\/8d069184b20d02b191472d46c6d335b1\"\/><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Credit: Paramount<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Simon Pegg, who starred in the 2009 J.J. Abrams-directed Star Trek movie, says Quentin Tarantino&#8217;s previously planned take on the franchise was nothing short of wild.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;That was what we call in the business batshit crazy,&#8221; Pegg said during a panel at Fan Expo in Boston (via <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/collider.com\/quentin-tarantinos-unmade-star-trek-script-simon-pegg-reaction\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Collider;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Collider<\/a>). &#8220;It was everything you would expect a Quentin Tarantino Star Trek script to be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Continued Pegg: &#8220;I think it would have been such an incredible sort of curio to see Star Trek through his lens. I don\u2019t know how it would have gone over with the fans, but it certainly would have been an interesting thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Back in 2017, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2017\/film\/news\/quentin-tarantino-star-trek-movie-revenant-writer-1202647587\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:it was announced that Paramount and Abrams were teaming up with Tarantino;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">it was announced that Paramount and Abrams were teaming up with Tarantino<\/a> for a new Star Trek film, with The Revenant screenwriter Mark L. Smith (and along with additional help from Lindsey Beer, Megan Amram, and Drew Pearce) set to pen the script. In 2019, Tarantino told <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/566089\/hateful-eight-netflix-miniseries\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Slash Film;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Slash Film<\/a> that the movie was still in development, but later revealed in 2020 that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/features\/general\/quentin-tarantino-star-trek-exit-1202203086\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:he had moved on from directing it;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">he had moved on from directing it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/simon-pegg-quentin-tarantino-unmade-star-trek-movie-crazy-1236487067\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Variety;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Variety<\/a>, the film would &#8220;mostly take place on an Earth-like planet in a 1930s gangster setting,&#8221; similar to the Star Trek: The Original Series season 2 episode 17 titled &#8216;A Piece of the Action.&#8217; The episode sees the Enterprise land on a planet that has modeled its society after 1920s gangsters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/star-trek-movie-works-director-112431230.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Another Star Trek movie is in the works;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">Another Star Trek movie is in the works<\/a> with Andor director Toby Haynes, which is set to be an &#8220;origin story&#8221; that is set &#8220;decades before&#8221; the events of the reboot. As for Star Trek 4, it was reported in 2024 that Supernatural writer <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/eight-years-announced-star-trek-163709063.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Steve Yockey would pen the script.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">Steve Yockey would pen the script.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For more, check out our list of the most exciting <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/upcoming-movies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:upcoming movies in 2025;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">upcoming movies in 2025<\/a> and beyond, or, check out our list of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/2022-movie-release-dates-every-163239925.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:movie release dates;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">movie release dates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Paramount Simon Pegg, who starred in the 2009 J.J. Abrams-directed Star Trek movie, says Quentin Tarantino&#8217;s previously planned take on the franchise was nothing short of wild. &#8220;That was what we call in the business batshit crazy,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1957063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[343694,343696,343695,318878,311493,319398,343693],"class_list":["post-1957062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-continued-pegg","tag-drew-pearce","tag-megan-amram","tag-quentin-tarantino","tag-simon-pegg","tag-star-trek","tag-star-trek-movie"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/It-was-everything-youd-expect-a-Tarantino-Star-Trek-script.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1957062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1957063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1957062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1957062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1957062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}