The reason why Quentin Tarantino didn't direct a Star Trek movie

In 2017, Quentin Tarantino was poised to make a Star Trek movie alongside writer Michael L. Smith.

It is unknown whether the movie would have taken place within the Chris Pine-led series, but it would have been R-Rated.

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Tarantino has continually claimed that his 10th movie would be his last and when discussing taking on Star Trek he still wasn't sure what the future held and what projects would come in the future. Ultimately, he didn't want a Star Trek movie to be his swan song in the movie business.

"It was a different thing, but this was such a particular different type of story that Quentin wanted to tell with it that it fit my kind of sensibilities," Smith told Collider.

"So I wrote that, Quentin and I went back and forth, he was gonna do some stuff on it, and then he started worrying about the number, his kind of unofficial number of films. I remember we were talking, and he goes, 'If I can just wrap my head around the idea that Star Trek could be my last movie, the last thing I ever do. Is this how I want to end it?'

"And I think that was the bump he could never get across, so the script is still sitting there on his desk. I know he said a lot of nice things about it. I would love for it to happen. It’s just one of those that I can't ever see happening.

"But it would be the 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."

The Movie Critic

Tarantino has now confirmed that his final movie will be titled The Movie Critic, about a critic working in LA for a "porno rag".

In an interview with Deadline, he explained what kind of character we're likely to encounter.

"He wrote about mainstream movies and he was the second-string critic," he revealed.

"I think he was a very good critic. He was as cynical as hell. His reviews were a cross between early Howard Stern and what Travis Bickle might be if he were a film critic.

"He wrote like he was 55 but he was only in his early to mid-30s. He died in his late thirties. It wasn’t clear for a while but now I’ve done some more research and I think it was it was complications due to alcoholism."