Star Trek: Simon Pegg Talks Quentin Tarantino’s Wild Movie, If 4 Will Happen
One of the more intriguing “what ifs” in recent Hollywood history revolves around Quentin Tarantino‘s unmade Star Trek movie. Simon Pegg, who played Scotty in the rebooted trilogy, recently shared some of the wild details he heard about Tarantino’s script.
What did Simon Pegg say about Quentin Tarantino’s Star Trek movie?
This past weekend, Pegg spoke on a panel at Fan Expo Boston, and Tarantino’s Star Trek movie was brought up during the conversation. While he never read a script, Pegg received a breakdown from J.J. Abrams and producer Lindsey Weber. In true Tarantino fashion, it did not disappoint.
“That was what we call in the business bats— crazy,” Pegg said via Collider. “It was everything you would expect a Quentin Tarantino Star Trek script to be.”
In 2017, Tarantino approached Abrams and Paramount with an R-rated pitch for Star Trek. Abrams liked the idea and assembled a writers’ room. The Revenant screenwriter Mark L. Smith was hired to pen the script.
Tarantino and Abrams were attached to produce, and the Pulp Fiction scribe was under consideration to direct. By 2020, Tarantino said he would not direct his Star Trek concept. As of 2025, there are no plans to make Tarantino’s Star Trek.
Letting a singular filmmaker like Tarantino make a Star Trek movie would have been a fascinating decision, one that interested Pegg.
“I think it would have been such an incredible sort of curio to see Star Trek through his lens,” Pegg said. “I don’t know how it would have gone over with the fans, but it certainly would have been an interesting thing.”
As for the long-awaited fourth Star Trek film in the Kelvin timeline, Pegg hopes that the recent merger between Paramount and Skydance will reignite the idea.
“I’m hoping now that David Ellison is now high up at Paramount,” Pegg said. “Now the merger’s happened, and David’s always been a big supporter of the Kelvin timeline. So who knows, maybe we’ll get to make another one.”
Originally reported by Dan Girolamo at SuperHeroHype.
Source: Comingsoon.net