Patrick Stewart Is Down For That Quentin Tarantino ‘Star Trek’ Movie
It’s been a weird week forStar Trek.On Monday, news broke thatQuentin Tarantinomight be directingthe nextStar Trekfilm. Later in the week came word that not only is Tarantino still planning to direct, but he also insisted hisStar Trekmovie berated R, and Paramount agreed. Now here’s something new (sort of):Star Trek: The Next GenerationstarPatrick Stewarthas expressed interest in appearing in the Quentin TarantinoStar Trekmovie, orTarantino Trekas I call it, should there be a part for him. Sure, why not? Let’s make this happen.
Let’s chalk this story up to “wishful thinking”, butStar Trek: The Next Generationactor Patrick Stewart is down to clown in that R-rated Quentin TarantinoStar Trekmovie. Stewart, who played Captain Jean-Luc Picard for seven seasons ofThe Next Generation, along with four films, toldThe Hollywood Reporterthat he’d love to work with Tarantino:
“[O]ne of my dreams is to work with Tarantino. I admire his work so much, and to be in a Tarantino film would give me so much satisfaction. So, if he is going to direct something to do with Star Trek and there was the possibility of dear old Jean-Luc showing up again and doing that for Mr Tarantino, I would embrace it.”
Stewart went on to say “The one thing that characterizes all of his movies is that frame by frame, it always challenges, always demands your attention, always demands a very kind of open and generous response to what he does,” and added that he loves Tarantino’s “sense of humor as a filmmaker.”
Again, there is nothing official here. No one is saying that Tarantino’sStar Trekmovie is going to feature Jean-Luc Picard. But if Tarantino wants to find a way to work Picard into his film, Stewart is more than willing to beam aboard. At this point, we can’t even begin to imagine what Tarantino’sTrekis going to be about. All we know is that Tarantino pitched an idea toJ.J. Abrams, and that Abrams loved it so much he convinced Paramount to assemble a writers room. That room included writersMark L. Smith(The Revenant),Lindsey Beer(Godzilla vs. Kong), andDrew Pearce(Iron Man 3), with Smith emerging as the likely choice to pen the script.
The plan (as we understand it) is for Tarantino to go off and shoot his still-untitled Charles Manson movie, then jump into directingStar Trekas his tenth and final film. Between now and then, anything could change. But if the idea of Patrick Stewart appearing in an R-rated Quentin TarantinoStar Trekmovie appeals to you, you can take solace in the fact that it appeals to Patrick Stewart as well.
