Quentin Tarantino Hatches ‘Star Trek’ Movie Idea; Paramount, JJ Abrams To Assemble Writers Room (1 Viewer)

[Lou Sytsma]

Totally out of left field?

Already busy prepping to direct the film he just set up at Sony Pictures, Quentin Tarantino is also planning to boldly go where he has not gone before.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

It seems to me that the people who often make the biggest deal out of retiring are the ones who have the hardest time sticking to it. So many of my favorite musicians have found it difficult to stay retired. I’d imagine that QT would fall into the same boat.

 

[Bryan^H]

Slightly off topic, but there is no way Tarantino's next film will be his last, no matter what it is.

I'm not sure why everyone thinks this can't happen, or won't happen. It is sort of bizarre to me. He is close to 60 years old, got married a while back and is expecting his first child in a couple months.
He thinks that directors run out if steam, and he is absolutely not wrong about this. Very few directors are as impactful in their later years as in their prime. He makes sense.

Now if he comes out of retirement for one last big film 10 years after his retirement , I'm sure everyone would welcome that.
But to think he will continue writing, and directing new films every four years or so until he is gone, I don't see that happening.

 

[TravisR]

I'm just guessing that's not the case. The man seems like a walking mass of caffeine and energy. I can't see him sitting still for very long, and the creative brain never really shuts off.

Could be wrong, its just a feeling I get about him.

I hope so because I'd love to keep getting a new Tarantino movie (whatever it is) every few years.

 

[TravisR]

He thinks that directors run out if steam, and he is absolutely not wrong about this.

Right or wrong, he definitely thinks that most people run out of steam as they get older and he's such a movie fan that I can see him taking that idea very seriously and deciding to retire to preserve his body of work.

 

[Winston T. Boogie]

I'm not sure why everyone thinks this can't happen, or won't happen. It is sort of bizarre to me. He is close to 60 years old, got married a while back and is expecting his first child in a couple months.
He thinks that directors run out if steam, and he is absolutely not wrong about this. Very few directors are as impactful in their later years as in their prime. He makes sense.

I think he is dead serious about retiring from making movies. I don't think it is really about his creative juices drying up, it is about the state of the movie business. He does not like where it is or where it is going. His kind of filmmaking is being or already has been phased out. He has done well with how he ran his career but everything he loves about the movie business is gone. That's entirely what his last film was about.

In fact Tarantino has said Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is the perfect film to end his career. He has discussed if this is where he wants to end and he said he thought about saving this film to be his last but he went ahead and made it because all the pieces to do it came together and he felt you can't pass that up because they may not at a later date.

So, the man is at the end, there is no doubt about that but not because he can't do it or he is slipping...he does not like that super hero stuff and franchise films are more important than his films and get priority over what he wants to do. I don't think he has yet fallen as far as the Coens or has to go through the struggles of a Scorsese yet, but that will come. Plus he wants to shoot his films on film...that will go away too.

He frankly does not want to face these things and would prefer to stop rather than make a movie in a way he does not want to. It's a choice and it is not a con or some gimmick he is going to quit...if he can't do it the way he likes to do it, he's out.

In my opinion this was one of his best films. It showed him doing things he has not done before and using more ways to tell a story. It is too bad he won't make more films because he has actually become a better filmmaker.

Will he vanish and just write books? My guess is no, but I think his feature film career will end. I would not be surprised to see him make a series for someone though. Be it Netflix or Amazon or whomever. He has made some noise about that. Again, he claims he would want to shoot that on film as well but I could seem him compromise to make "TV" because it is not getting shown in a theater.

 

[Citizen87645]

So many of my favorite musicians have found it difficult to stay retired. I’d imagine that QT would fall into the same boat.

How many farewell tours has Cher had now?

 

[Tino]

Ya. I saw The Who’s farewell tour in 1980!

 

[Josh Steinberg]

I saw the Farewell Reunion tour in 2000, and then the next one in 2002 - but since Entwhistle died the night before ‘02 began, I guess that made it an actual farewell tour!

 

[YANG]

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Wouldn't it be interesting to see which StarTrek characters do the "Travolta+Thurman dance"?