Star Trek IV (S.J. Clarkson)

[Grouchy]

That seems to be the idea and it's a pretty good one. With only two movies left in Tarantino's self-imposed filmography, I can't see the last one being a Star Trek jr. installment.

[Skitch]

Try harder. I've seen about one trillion variations on this in the past 3 days.

No way, I laughed.

[Skitch]

I honestly think this is going to end up being something along the lines of:

Produced by JJ and Tarantino.

Rated PG-13

Co-written by Tarantino and a room full of studio writers.

Directed by someone totally safe.

100%. I still don't believe for a second QT will direct.

[number8]

On the other hand, I can see Tarantino thinking that a perfect Hollywood legacy isn’t complete until you’ve succcessfully tackled a franchise movie.

[Grouchy]

Could be. He's certainly fantasized about it many times before with Godzilla, James Bond and even Luke Cage.

I just wish it was something I was a little more into than Star Trek.

[Skitch]

Don't get me wrong, I would love for him to do it. I just don't think it will happen at this stage of his career. Maybe back at movie 3.

I have been begging for a QT sci-fi movie for a while, I just hoped it would be a wholly original QT thing.

[Skitch]

I've asked for a QT sci-fi flick for a while, but I don't feel this is a good fit. He can do anything, sure, but I want a proper matchup. I want Quentin Tarantino's Tank Girl.

[Morris Schæffer]

It has secured a scribe. The guy who did The Revenant.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/he...writer-1070045

[megladon8]

Tarantino isn’t writing it?

Interest dropped by 80% already.

[number8]

He never wanted to write it. He wanted to direct it.

[Morris Schæffer]

If he directs it, it'll be a Tarantino movie for me. I'm sure he'll do some minor tweaking on the script if he sees the need.

[number8]

He's done this before, with CSI. He came up with the story and broke it with the staff writers, but let the franchise keepers assign someone else to write all the ideas into a script. Yet the result ended up being undeniably Tarantinoesque anyway, down to the dialogue.

[Ivan Drago]

I've asked for a QT sci-fi flick for a while, but I don't feel this is a good fit. He can do anything, sure, but I want a proper matchup. I want Quentin Tarantino's Tank Girl.

The '95 movie was ten years ahead of its time, so something to that extent would be absolutely divine.

[Neclord]

Three different potential scripts?

[Morris Schæffer]

http://variety.com/2018/film/news/s-...th-1202787592/

[Dukefrukem]

Ok then.

[Neclord]

Good

[Skitch]

I don't believe this will ever happen. QT directing it, that is.

...

[Henry Gale]

This is definitely very good news and a huge relief for me as I love the Pine-led cast, and obviously Hemsworth is more than coming into his own as a charismatic leading man after a string of bland roles he was thrust into years ago like The Huntsman (mind you, this implies I've seen something like 12 Strong, which I have not), not that I think this role will necessarily nourish the great goofy side he's honed in on. But this was always an intriguing premise that I knew was never going to happen if the Tarantino script immediately went ahead.

And apparently they are also still developing QT's movie in the background while he makes Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and, maybe more importantly, the current stigma around his name dies down a bit. Whether or not he directs it is still anyone's guess, but I do like that the script seems like it will always be around as a self-contained non-Abrams-timeline movie to pull the trigger on, even in tandem with the main series continuing.

I'm just glad Paramount is committed to this iteration of the series after Beyond seemed to underwhelm financially.

[Dukefrukem]

Chris Pine and Chris Hemsworth 'Star Trek 4' Future In Doubt as Talks Fall Through

[Henry Gale]

It's such a dumb situation because Paramount is apparently going back on the two-movie contract Pine made before Beyond which set a pay for that film and this one. Obviously Beyond wasn't a runaway hit (and it's up for speculation if it even made profit), but if as a studio you're going to commit to continuing the franchise, how can you not honour your agreement with your lead? The literal captain of the ship.

And then Ragnarok and Infinity War have turned Hemsworth into an even bigger draw and he has way less stake in having to be a part of this, which of course could male the studio and everyone creatively invovled to wonder that if they can't set an acceptable salary for him, do they even bother with this particular storyline? Which inevitably leads to questioning if they make a film at all.

Ugh. Just use 5-10% of what A Quiet Place made and just pay them to save this series.

[transmogrifier]

Ugh. Just use 5-10% of what A Quiet Place made and just pay them to save this series.

Or...just hear me out here.... let the series die and go make something original.

[Henry Gale]

Or...just hear me out here.... let the series die and go make something original.

If this were any other studio and a brand other than Trek, I'd easily say "For sure!" but Paramount has this, Spongebob, and Mission: Impossible as literally its only three viable franchises right now (at least with general critical and audience praise). Everything else looks like a fluke (A Quiet Place, Book Club) or them trying to get rid of something (their recent Netflix sell-offs, Action Point).

If it weren't for those few hits a year, they'd look like they were all but closing up shop on paper. A perceived idea of blockbuster films used to be from a business standpoint that a studio would make the big money on those to fund a higher number of lower budgeted products with less of a risk attached to them the rest of the year, but somehwere along the line Paramount (and other studios too) decided that less output that mainly consisted of huge tentpoles was the best way to stay relevant and afloat. But instead you have them putting all their chips on things like the last Transformers and TMNT movies and all of a sudden 2/5ths of the bi-annual cash cows they were so reliant on aren't there anymore.

I honestly think they may have made more money this year selling off Annihilation, Extinction and Cloverfield Paradox to Netflix than they may have on Star Trek Beyond, but that shouldn't mean they shouldn't do everything they can to nurture something as valuable as Star Trek, even if they don't seemingly care enough to keep their lead by honouring their own contract with hin.

At least Book Club did well. The lesson they should take from that is to greenlight six or seven films of its pricetag if they don't end up making this fourth Star Trek.

[Ivan Drago]

Rumor has it if Leslie Moonves is forced out at CBS/Viacom, they could sell IPs or the studio of Paramount itself to Universal/Comcast.

[Morris Schæffer]

Shelved.

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/81528