Quentin Tarantino Clears Up A Mystery About His Star Trek Project

Given that CBS All Access has returned to the original Star Trek timeline with Star Trek: Discovery and the upcoming Picard, there have been questions if this Quentin Tarantino Star Trek movie would be set in the original timeline or the Kelvin timeline that 2009’s Star Trek, 2013’s Star Trek Into Darkness and 2016’s Star Trek Beyond exists in. Now Tarantino has answered: it’d be set in that latter continuity. According to the filmmaker:

So while Quentin Tarantino doesn’t grasp the mechanics of how the Kelvin timeline came to be (red matter created a black hole that transported Leonard Nimoy’s Spock and a group of Romulans back in time, nothing too complicated), that would be the continuity his story would be set in. Fortunately for Tarantino, JJ Abrams, who directed the first two Star Trek reboot movies and has since left his mark on the Star Wars universe, is okay with the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood writer/director taking whatever creative liberties he feels necessary to make his story work.

From what’s been made public, it’s looking like Quentin Tarantino’s Star Trek movie stands a decent chance of happening. The big question, though, is whether he’d direct it or not.

Since Quentin Tarantino plans to retire from filmmaking after 10 movies, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is his ninth, he said on a recent episode of HeroBlend that he has a loophole where he could direct Star Trek and then have an original work be his official 10th movie. However, he’s also willing to have Star Trek fill that 10 spot instead. You can listen to Tarantino’s full thoughts on the matter below:

The wait continues to learn specific plot details about Quentin Tarantino’s Star Trek movie, but since it would be set in the Kelvin timeline and he likes those versions of Kirk and Spock, one would imagine that means that the main cast of the past three movies will be back. Tarantino has also confirmed this Star Trek movie would be R-rated.

Keep checking back with CinemaBlend for more updates on what’s happening with Quentin Tarantino’s Star Trek. For now, keep up to date on what’s hitting theaters later this year in our 2019 release schedule.