Modern auteur Quentin Tarantino has always been about original movies, but back in 2019, word was going around that he was going to direct a big-budget Star Trek movie for Paramount.
Of course, the film didn’t manage to push through, and while multiple people had things to say about why it didn’t move forward, Tarantino himself explained that a lot of the rumors coming out about him working on the project were just ‘misinformation.’
Talking to Bill Maher in his podcast (via SFFGazette), Tarantino confirms, “It’s never going to happen… There’s been so much misinformation about what it was going to be – nothing but misinformation. I live in a special zone and part of my zone is because I’m not on Instagram and Facebook, I’m not creating this constant dialogue with the world with what’s going on with my life.
“Consequently, if you’re Joe Schlomoka and you’re some transient reporter of some kind, if you hear Quentin is going to make a Star Trek movie or a make a movie called The Movie Critic, or any f–king thing, it’s a little bit like that guy who wrote the Howard Hughes biography that ended up being a hoax… The thing is, they can say anything.”
We don’t know specifically what happened when word was going around that Tarantino was set to direct a Trek movie, but it was said that he decided to back out on the project because he was considering only having strictly 10 movies under his belt—and he didn’t want the last one to be a franchise that he didn’t even come up with.
Then again, Tarantino himself has said that most of the stuff online concerning him and the Trek movie have been misinformation, so we should take that “10 movies” thing with a grain of salt.
For now, it looks like Paramount is still scrambling with how to approach Trek on the big screen. Multiple creators have come and gone with Star Trek 4, and now CBM is reporting that Toby Haynes (Andor) is set to make a prequel to Trek with Steve Yockey (The Flight Attendant) developing a last movie for the Kelvin Timeline.
No announcement has been made for the next Trek movie that’s expected to hit theatres.
