“As ‘Pulp Fiction’ in space”: This is what a Tarantino-directed ‘Star Trek’ movie would have looked like

Quentin Tarantino came very close to directing his own ‘Star Trek’ movie. The story goes back a long way, but it was only this October that some of those involved in the project revealed new details. Specifically, it was Lindsey Anderson Beer, who worked as a screenwriter on ‘Star Trek 4′, who was responsible for revealing what the filmmaker’s position was.

What would the Tarantino directed ‘Star Trek’ movie have been like?

“We got in there [into a room] and he started with, ‘So what are your guys’ ideas for a movie?’ and I think I went first,” Beer begins in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “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?’” Beer left “Star Trek 4′ to do the same work on the “Pet Sematary: Bloodlines” series.

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We know that Tarantino always intended the movie to get an R rating, which is what the ratings board translates to “Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.”

It was the filmmaker himself who remarked that his “Star Trek” would be “as ‘Pulp Fiction’ in space”:  “Mark [L. Smith] wrote a really cool script. I like it a lot [...] If I do it, that’s exactly what it’ll be. It’ll be Pulp Fiction in space. That Pulp Fiction-y aspect, when I read the script, I felt, I have never read a science fiction movie that has this sh*t in it, ever. There’s no science fiction movie that has this in it,” he told Deadline. It was inspired by the episode ‘A Piece of the Action’ from the original ‘Star Trek’ series.