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Frasier CraneSam Barsanti
12/07/17 4:31pm
This is classic.
When Barsanti addressed this earlier in the week, he said: “If Tarantino does direct, this would be one of the first times that he has ever directed something that wasn’t his original idea, with the others being a few episodes of CSI and ER.” [Actually, its two eps of CSI - a 2-parter, and just one of E.R., but let’s give him that one.]
It was quickly noted that Barsanti forgot about “Jackie Brown” and “Four Rooms”. That group of 5 derivative works (i.e. ‘not original’) could fairly be described as “a handful”.
But Barsanti attempts to correct matters with today’s update, by revising the ‘critic’s observation’ to: “…if Tarantino does end up directing, that will make this one of only a handful of projects he has ever directed that he didn’t also write.”
Of course… nope. The ONLY project he didn’t have a writing credit on is the one E.R. episode. That would make this one his potential SECOND one.
Not ‘a handful’. Get an editor, Sam.
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  dirtsideFrasier Crane
  12/07/17 4:37pm
  Upvoted for username-comment pedantic synergy, upvote rescinded for your long-winded comment not having any funny parts.
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  YummshFrasier Crane
  12/07/17 4:39pm
  Does it hurt to sit with a pickle in your ass?
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MFN DixonSam Barsanti
12/07/17 4:08pm
Damn...
I really wanted to hear Samuel L. Jackson say, “Are you out of your Vulcan mind?!?”.
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  Isaac AsiholeMFN Dixon
  12/07/17 4:23pm
  “I’ve had it with these motherfuckin’ tribbles on this motherfuckin’ starship!”
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  PooJavelin Eats Herbs For Lunch!Isaac Asihole
  12/07/17 4:59pm
  “Aw, fuck... Can’t a brother just deal some goddamn Ketracel-white?”
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VelocirapstarSam Barsanti
12/07/17 4:26pm
Tarantino is a strange pick for this, but before you write him off, his movies tend to be more cerebral than JJ Abrams, and he’s succeeded in multiple genres - heist, war, western, and more. I could see him making a good Star Trek movie.
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  Untitled1Velocirapstar
  12/07/17 4:32pm
  Also, he went to Paramount, not the reverse. So there’s a level of enthusiasm here that I think has been lacking for a long time with Star Trek.
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dirtsideSam Barsanti
12/07/17 4:17pm
Aw, man, we already did all the Tarantino/Trek puns we could think of on the other thread.
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  Twocentsdirtside
  12/07/17 4:34pm
  Oh no, it’s too bad The AVClub is totally against making the same jokes over and over again! Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to imagine Jules Winnfield doing a Stardate 2517 monologue
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  Soda Costanza 2.0 (I got locked out of the old one)Twocents
  12/07/17 4:49pm
  Oh no, it’s too bad The AVClub is totally against making the same jokes over and over again! Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to imagine Jules Winnfield doing a Stardate 2517 monologue
  -The A.V. Club
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kingofmadcowsSam Barsanti
12/07/17 4:18pm
Well that’s simply the way they talk here. Nobody pays any attention to you unless you swear every other word.
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  dirtsidekingofmadcows
  12/07/17 4:38pm
  “Spock, where’s that power you promised me?”
  “One goddamn minute, motherfucker!”
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  Sleep Attackkingofmadcows
  12/07/17 6:05pm
  Don’t swear. We’re were-spacepeople, not swear-spacepeople.
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GLJeremySam Barsanti
12/07/17 4:20pm
I guess I am in the minority, but I just don’t think I need or want an R-rated Star Trek.
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  QueenVictoriasCorsetKatanaGLJeremy
  12/07/17 4:23pm
  I’m with you. The Abrams-verse one is bad enough. Why go further?
  The movies don’t need this kind of “improvement”.
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  rosssmillerGLJeremy
  12/07/17 4:44pm
  I’m calling it now: this report is bogus. There’s no way that Paramount would greenlight an R rated Star Trek, especially after Beyond underperformed, and despite what people think about Tarantino, he understands what makes his favorite movies (and TV shows) tick. He’s not going to demand that Star Trek is R rated, just because he loves swearing and violence in his own work.
  
  I think it’s FAR more likely that Tarantino had numerous false rumors floated out around Paramount to see who was likely to leak details to the media. It’s well known that he’s paranoid after the Hateful Eight script leaked, and this is the exact sort of thing that entertainment journalists would assume is accurate if they heard it from a “reliable” source.
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Volante3192Sam Barsanti
12/07/17 4:21pm
if Tarantino does end up directing, that will make this one of only a handful of projects he has ever directed that he didn’t also write.
He’s only directed a handful of projects in the first place!
Edit: Further research makes me think this would be his first directorial feature he didn’t write. (Sin City doesn’t count.)
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  Mr GlitchVolante3192
  12/07/17 5:20pm
  He didn’t write Jackie Brown, evidently. The comment section beat up the writers about this on Monday.
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  Volante3192Mr Glitch
  12/07/17 5:34pm
  Unless I missed something somewhere, he wrote ‘Jackie Brown’, but he didn’t write ‘Rum Punch’ (the novel on which it was based).
  Seems a fine line to argue adapting a 302 page novel into a I’m going to guesstimate a 157 page screenplay doesn’t count as writing. The Oscars even have a specific category to do just that.
  Admittedly, this is Kinja and I’ve probably argued even more trivial technicalities...
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Mr GlitchSam Barsanti
12/07/17 5:16pm
Are we talking two “fucks” in one movie R, The Thing levels of body horror & gore R, or softcore Gorn porn R? Because the first could be fun, the second is unnecessary for Trek, and the third is at least a new idea.
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  Sleep AttackMr Glitch
  12/07/17 6:14pm
  I’m certainly not going to Google it, but I would assume there is nothing new about that third idea.
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recognitionsSam Barsanti
12/07/17 4:30pm
I’m only interested if they get Sisko back.
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  Son of Moghrecognitions
  12/07/17 5:04pm
  Avery Brooks is basically retired. I doubt he’s coming out of retirement at 70 years old (he’s 69 now) to do a Star Trek movie.
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ElectronikatSam Barsanti
12/07/17 4:05pm
I know nothing about it and already like it more than The Hateful 8.
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  BKElectronikat
  12/07/17 4:48pm
  To be fair, the Hateful 8 set a historically low bar to surmount.
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  TGGPBK
  12/07/17 8:33pm
  I prefer Hateful 8 to his previous two films. The classical unities don’t elevate The Tempest for me, but it worked in this case.
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