{"id":566768,"date":"2026-05-05T03:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T03:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/566768\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T03:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T03:53:11","slug":"quentin-tarantinos-r-rated-star-trek-movie-gets-an-update-from-william-shatner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/566768\/","title":{"rendered":"Quentin Tarantino’s R-Rated Star Trek Movie Gets an Update From William Shatner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Star Trek<\/a> is in the midst of one of its most volatile transition periods, thanks to the changing tides at Paramount<\/a> and the changing nature of the movie and streaming industry as a whole. The current era of Star Trek shows is coming to an end, but a new era of Star Trek movies is on the horizon. Paramount has a new Star Trek movie in development, with the team behind Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves at the helm<\/a>; however, = as of CinemaCon 2026, there are no firm details on the story<\/a>. That\u2019s left a glimmer of hope in the eyes of some fans, who have been hoping for years now that one particular Star Trek film would make it to the big screen. <\/p>\n

The word about Quentin Tarantino\u2019s R-rated Star Trek movie has become a tall tale legend within Hollywood and the Star Trek fandom. It\u2019s been one of the projects that became a fan fixation, and has been the constant focus of fandom discussions and online campaigns. With a whole new era taking shape at Paramount, it\u2019s hard to know how much of a possibility Tarantino\u2019s Star Trek project is anymore. But one person who is in a position to know about all things Trek is giving a decisive answer that fans will want to hear. <\/p>\n

William Shatner Closes the Door on Tarantino\u2019s Star Trek Movie<\/p>\n

\"Mirror<\/p>\n

William Shatner was present at Liverpool Comic-Con, where he was interviewed<\/a> about the legacy of Star Trek and more. The subject of Shatner\u2019s friendship with Tarantino was brought up (Tarantino has been a longtime avid fan of Shatner\u2019s Captain Kirk), and that led to the question lots of Star Trek fans are still asking: Could Tarantino\u2019s Star Trek still happen? <\/p>\n

Well, we can put this fandom dream to bed, because Shatner\u2019s definitive answer was \u201cNo.\u201d According to Shatner, hat any opportunity for Tarantino\u2019s Star Trek has long since passed: \u201cIt\u2019s past its time. He has passed his time, and I have\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Star Trek will never get to know exactly what Quentin Tarantino planned to do with Star Trek, after so many teases of something epic. In 2023, Mark L. Smith, who wrote the screenplay for Tarantino\u2019s Star Trek movie, said in no uncertain terms<\/a> that it would\u2019ve been \u201cthe greatest Star Trek film, not for my writing, but just for what Tarantino was gonna do with it. It was just a balls-out kind of thing\u2026 It was a hard R. It was going to be some Pulp Fiction violence,\u201d Smith explained to Collider<\/a>. \u201cNot a lot of the language\u2026 but it was just really the edginess and the kind of that Tarantino flair, man, that he was bringing to it. It would have been cool.<\/p>\n

According to Smith, Tarantino would\u2019ve done for Star Trek what Taika Waititi and James Gunn did for the Marvel Cinematic Universe: change up the formula fans were used to. <\/p>\n

\u201cI liked it because I think it\u2019s different, the way that Ragnarok changed things. It was like suddenly it had a different feel for the Marvel stuff. It was like, \u2018That\u2019s fun. That\u2019s different, and I guess Guardians [of the Galaxy] to some level, but it was just like a different vibe, and that\u2019s what I thought that it could bring to Star Trek was just a different feel.\u201d<\/p>\n

So What\u2019s Next For Star Trek? <\/p>\n

\"Star<\/p>\n

As stated, this year, Paramount announced that a new Star Trek movie is coming, without revealing any of the story details. We can rule out Tarantino\u2019s film, but there are still a lot of questions about whether the next film we recast the classic characters for a reboot, or return to J.J. Abrams\u2019 \u201cKelvin Timline\u201d with Chris Pine\u2019s Captain Kirk and crew, or launch a new wave of movies using new characters or a different set of established characters. <\/p>\n

When initial reports about the new Star Trek movie<\/a> went live, it was said that directors Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley were leaning toward abandoning Abrams\u2019 Kelvin Timeline, and might not \u201cinclude any familiar characters at all.\u201d The pair reportedly have \u201ca completely new take\u201d on Star Trek, that won\u2019t be connected to previous shows or films. However, we have yet to hear that confirmed as the official creative approach to the movie, or what the \u201cnew take\u201d on the franchise would be. <\/p>\n

What do you want to see next for the Star Trek franchise? Let us know in our Forum Discussion<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Star Trek is in the midst of one of its most volatile transition periods, thanks to the changing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,33395,1092,12072,102480,56,54,55,17664],"class_list":["post-566768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-quentin-tarantino","tag-regular-news","tag-star-trek","tag-star-trek-4","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-william-shatner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}