It’s still not exactly clear where Paramount Pictures is going with the films of the “Star Trek” franchise. At last report, the studio is still pursuing a fourth film that would continue the ‘Kelvin Timeline’ with Chris Pine as Captain Kirk and Zachary Quinto as Spock.
However, the exit of director Matt Shakman a while back means there’s currently no-one set at the helm of the next movie with Quinto saying in August that different views on the direction of the next film were delaying its progress.
At one time years ago, filmmaker Quentin Tarantino and “The Revenant” scribe Mark L. Smith were reportedly working on an idea that sounded akin to the classic series episode “A Piece of the Action” – essentially an R-rated gangster movie.
This week, speaking with THR, “Pet Sematary: Bloodlines” writer/director Lindsey Anderson Beer revealed she was in the writer’s room for Tarantino’s incarnation. She explained what happened:
“We got in there and [Tarantino] started with, ‘So what are your guys’ ideas for a movie?’ and I think I went first.
So he listened to us patiently and just kind of nodded his head, and then he took out his notebook and started talking for 20 minutes with lines of dialogue and passionate ideas that he’d already written.
It wasn’t really a story yet; they were just random thoughts he had on a movie, but it was so passionate and so wonderful. And I laughed to myself and thought, ‘Well, why didn’t we start with that?’
There was a funny moment where he just stopped in the middle of that room and turned to me and said, ‘Lindsey, you’re really good at this.’ And getting that compliment from somebody whose career I admire so much meant a lot, obviously.”
Tarantino reportedly first pitched the idea back in late 2017 and revealed in May 2019 a script had been written that he intended to direct. Then it fell apart and he officially exited the project in January 2020.
