Simon Pegg has spoken about Quentin Tarantino’s unmade Star Trek film, branding it “batshit crazy”.
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The Once Upon a Time in Hollywood director has been attached to a new movie in the long-running space franchise for a while, after previously being reported to have successfully pitched a version to Paramount.
However, the movie was ultimately never made with screenwriter Mark L. Smith telling Collider in 2023 that a major hang-up on the film’s production was down to the fact that Tarantino was worried Star Trek would be his last movie.
Pegg, who starred as Scotty in the rebooted Star Trek trilogy, shed some light on what the movie would have looked like at Fan Expo Boston over the weekend.
“That was what we call in the business batshit crazy,” he said via Collider. “It was everything you would expect a Quentin Tarantino Star Trek script to be.”
Pegg went on to say that he would have enjoyed seeing the world of Star Trek through the eyes of Tarantino, but diehard fans of the franchise might have felt differently.
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“I think it would have been such an incredible sort of curio to see Star Trek through his lens,” he added. “I don’t know how it would have gone over with the fans, but it certainly would have been an interesting thing.”
Tarantino’s movie was set to be “based on an episode of the classic Star Trek series that takes place largely earthbound in a 1930s gangster setting.”
The episode in question, ‘A Piece of the Action’, the 17th episode of the second season of Star Trek: The Original Series aired on January 12, 1968.
Speaking about why the movie never saw the light of day, Smith previously said: “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.”
Meanwhile, Tarantino is set to write the script for Once Upon A Time In Hollywood spin-off The Adventures Of Cliff Booth. The film, which will be released on Netflix, is being directed by David Fincher.
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