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Quentin Tarantino ‘Star Trek’ Firms ‘The Revenant’s
Mark L. Smith As Screenwriter
Source: https://deadline.com/2017/12/quentin-tarantino-star-trek-mark-l-smith-jj-abrams-the-revenant-paramount-pictures-1202231379/
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has set Mark L. Smith to write the script for the
R-rated Star Trek movie that was hatched from an idea by Quentin Tarantino.
Tarantino wants to direct the film, which he’ll produce with JJ Abrams. That means
that a writer whose breakthrough came on one of the most celebrated spare dialogue
films of recent years will team with Tarantino, a writer/director whose own scripts
have run run 165 pages or more, full of dialogue. Smith became a favorite of both
Paramount and Abrams after he scripted Overlord, the Julius Avery-directed Bad
Robot-produced WWII thriller about two American soldiers caught behind enemy
lines on D-Day.
Deadline revealed the Tarantino Star Trek project last month, and then earlier this
month that Smith, Lindsey Beer, Drew Pearce and Megan Amram took part in a
writer’s room with Tarantino. Smith was viewed as frontrunner for the job and
Paramount closed his writing deal today. The movie is a daring one on several fronts,
especially since there was a promise made to Tarantino by Paramount and Abrams
that this Star Trek will carry the R rating, same as all the films Tarantino has
directed.
Smith will write while Tarantino focuses on his next film, about the Manson summer
of 1969, which Sony acquired. Tarantino has asked I, Tonya‘s Margot Robbie to play
Sharon Tate, and Cruise, Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt have also met with the
filmmaker about roles. The film begins production next spring for an August 9, 2019
release date that falls on the 50th anniversary of the murder of Tate and several
others at the hands of Manson’s acolytes.
Mark L. Smith As Screenwriter
Source: https://deadline.com/2017/12/quentin-tarantino-star-trek-mark-l-smith-jj-abrams-the-revenant-paramount-pictures-1202231379/
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has set Mark L. Smith to write the script for the
R-rated Star Trek movie that was hatched from an idea by Quentin Tarantino.
Tarantino wants to direct the film, which he’ll produce with JJ Abrams. That means
that a writer whose breakthrough came on one of the most celebrated spare dialogue
films of recent years will team with Tarantino, a writer/director whose own scripts
have run run 165 pages or more, full of dialogue. Smith became a favorite of both
Paramount and Abrams after he scripted Overlord, the Julius Avery-directed Bad
Robot-produced WWII thriller about two American soldiers caught behind enemy
lines on D-Day.
Deadline revealed the Tarantino Star Trek project last month, and then earlier this
month that Smith, Lindsey Beer, Drew Pearce and Megan Amram took part in a
writer’s room with Tarantino. Smith was viewed as frontrunner for the job and
Paramount closed his writing deal today. The movie is a daring one on several fronts,
especially since there was a promise made to Tarantino by Paramount and Abrams
that this Star Trek will carry the R rating, same as all the films Tarantino has
directed.
Smith will write while Tarantino focuses on his next film, about the Manson summer
of 1969, which Sony acquired. Tarantino has asked I, Tonya‘s Margot Robbie to play
Sharon Tate, and Cruise, Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt have also met with the
filmmaker about roles. The film begins production next spring for an August 9, 2019
release date that falls on the 50th anniversary of the murder of Tate and several
others at the hands of Manson’s acolytes.
