Star Trek: Oh So Many Scripts To Choose From

From Slash/Film

What the heck is going on with the Star Trek film franchise? All was quiet on the Trek front following Star Trek Beyond. Then word broke that Quentin Tarantino was developing an R-rated Star Trek film. Now, Nu-Spock himself, Zachary Quinto, has provided yet another update: multiple Star Trek scripts are in the works.

Sooner or later, we’ll have another Star Trek sequel. It’s as inevitable as the tides, or the change of seasons. Right now, though, everything is still up in the air. Late last year, a surprising story revealed Quentin Tarantino had pitched an R-rated Star Trek sequel idea to Paramount, and that Paramount was working to make it happen. But the Tarantino-inspired script apparently isn’t the only new Trek film in the works. Speaking with Entertainment Tonight Canada, which is like Entertainment Tonight but much more polite, Star Trek actor Zachary Quinto says there are at least three different Star Trek scripts being worked on:

“First of all, I think there’s a couple of scripts. Because there was a script being written before Quentin Tarantino came up with his idea for a potential film. And so I think they are kind of developing more than one. So I don’t know what is going to happen. Quentin is off doing another movie. So, I feel like we are in a state of anticipation. All of us are really excited about the idea of working with Quentin on a Trek film, but I know Simon Pegg and Doug Jung, who wrote the last film, are writing a script and there are another set of writers writing a script. So I don’t know. I don’t know what’s going to happen.”

This news isn’t entirely surprising. For big franchise films, studios will often have multiple writers working on multiple scripts at once. What usually happens is a studio will then pick the script they like the most, or, they’ll pick elements from each script they like and combine them into one script. At the same time, it seems kind of strange that Paramount would bring in such a big name like Tarantino, but still develop other Trek projects alongside his. Of course, we still know very little about Tarantino’s Trek idea. There’s always a chance his film exists outside of the continuity of J.J. Abrams‘ rebooted Trek series, and that Paramount is hoping to make both Tarantino’s film, and a more direct Trek sequel that follows Star Trek Beyond.

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Written By: Ken Hulsey
Source: WENN

Director Quentin Tarantino hinted way back in 2004 that he may someday make a third film in his "Kill Bill" series, and according to actress Uma Thurman, who played the films lead character, The Bride, that day is coming very quickly.

Tarantino's first two "Bill" movies, the directors homage to both classic westerns and obscure Japanese martial arts films, were big hits worldwide.

Now, the outspoken movie maker is sitting down and hammering out a screenplay, and has consulted with Thurman about what he plans to do story wise.

Thurman remarks, "We did chat. He has not yet finished the script. I don't even really know if he's really started it, although I got a taste of some of his ideas and they are really good. He has started to share with me what he was thinking, and it's awesome."

What can we expect to see in "Kill Bill 3"?

Well, during interviews for "Kill Bill 2", Tarantino speculated that it would be cool if the roles were reversed and that The Bride would become the one being hunted, possibly by the daughter of Deadly Viper Assassination Squad member Vernita Green, who saw her mother killed by Thurman's character.

That would jive with Thurman's remarks about the new film taking place ten years after the events of the prior two films. In that case, Green's daughter would be a teenager.

Reportedly Tarentino is looking for a 2014 release for "Kill Bill 3".

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