Daily Debrief: Tarantino’s ‘Star Trek’ will be R-rated; Stewart wants in; ‘Pet Sematary’ dated

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Set phasers to stun! Paramount Pictures is having a really weird week, but sorta in a good way? Earlier this week it was revealed that Quentin Tarantino had broken into the studio and pitched his own idea for a Star Trek flick. Supposedly he had J.J. Abrams at gunpoint, because everybody went along with it.

We can now reveal that Tarantino hung out in a writers room for a few hours with Mark L. Smith (frontrunner to write the film), Lindsey Beer, Drew Pearce, and Megan Amram. They presumably passed a few beers around, and then Tarantino demanded a hard-R rating, and Paramount nodded in sheer excitement. He’ll work on the script that’s produced by one of the writers, and will direct the feature after he wraps up his Charles Manson 1969-ensemble thing. Hot damn!

If that wasn’t odd enough, Patrick Stewart said he’d be open to reprising his role as Jean-Luc Picard if Quentin is in the director’s chair. Stewart, who last played the role in Star Trek: Nemesis, said that he would openly “embrace it”. Turns out, one of Stewart’s long-held dreams is “to work with Tarantino”. You know what that means, right? Heck, we may be about to get an R-rated Quentin Tarantino Star Trek film starring the legendary Stewart. What strange new world is this? It’s all highly illogical.

It’s been a very topsy-turvy week for Paramount – that’s for certain. The studio also decided to shake up its current roster, scheduling some release dates. The forthcoming reboot of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary will drop on April 19, 2019 and Mark Wahlberg’s comedy flick Instant Family is due to arrive on February 15, 2019.

Source: filmdaily.co