Quentin Tarantino Would Rather Direct Star Trek Over Star Wars

fabled director Quentin Tarantino read that if give a choice he would rather make aStar Trekmovie than take on the job of crafting a film in theStar Warsuniverse . Tarantino ’s next for - real project has not been formally announce but he is reported to be developing a story establish on theCharles Manson murdersand is pursuing big stars like Jennifer Lawrence , Margot Robbieand Brad Pitt .

Speculating about possible Tarantino undertaking has provide fans with almost as much entertainment as his actual moving picture , and there have been lots and slew of nominate Tarantino dream movies and TV series over the eld , include a few the filmmaker seemed to be earnestly follow up on at one detail or another . The tilt of legendarywould - be Tarantino projectsincludes an version of the first James Bond novelCasino Royale(which eventually was done by Martin Campbell ) , as well asThe Man From U.N.C.L.E.(later taken up by Guy Ritchie ) , a remake ofLess Than Zeroand an adaptation of Len Deighton’sThe Berlin Game .

In an epidode of theNerdistpodcast from 2015 that recently popped up again on the internet ( viaTrekNews.net ) , Tarantino tackles another speculative question that has sparked devotee curiosity : would he ever count jumpstart aboard one of the big sci - fi franchises likeStar warfare ? When asked about hisStar Warsthoughts , Tarantino admits that if give a choice he ’d favor to go theStar Trekroute rather than travel to the galaxy far , far away :

The answer is I ’d be more inclined to do a Star Trek variety of thing rather than Star Wars . And I like Star Wars and everything .

Tarantino says that he ’s a large fan of the originalStar Trekseries and particularly original Captain Kirk William Shatner . He then veers into a dissection of J.J. Abrams’Star Trekmovies , articulate he like the 2009 reboot but was not a buff of the sequel , Star Trek Into Darkness . The cast of Benedict Cumberbatch as Khan incommode Tarantino in finical ( so do n’t front for Tarantino to be casting Cumberbatch in any of his succeeding movie ) .

Tarantino then talks about someOSandTNGepisodes he admire , singling out the classicOSinstallment " City On The Edge Of Forever " as well as theTNGepisode " Yesterday ’s enterprisingness . " Tarantino recollect the way to go with futureTrekmovies would be to take some of the classical episodes , specially the onesinvolving metre - travelling , and simply blow up them to 90 minute . With New - day effect , Tarantino believes those well - write former episodes could really come to living .

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It seems that Tarantino has some very specific ideas about what he ’d like to do withStar Trek , so maybe Paramount should consider giving the director a call . Quentin Jerome Tarantino is n’t widely known for being a for - hire film director but he has occasionally taken on such jobs , most notably right smart back in the day when he directed an installment of the television seriesER . As forStar Wars , it does n’t seem like Lucasfilm should bother trying to set up any encounter with Tarantino … not that they would ever debate working with an auteur of Tarantino ’s stature and creative independency . After watching what happened toLord and MillerandColin Trevorrow , Tarantino is probably even more disinclined to consider wreak for Kathleen Kennedy onStar Wars .