Though Quentin Tarantino's elusive Star Trek film has long been assumed cancelled, the famed Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs director has now confirmed it once and for all.
Tarantino said definitively on the Club Random Podcast that a Star Trek film directed by him is "never going to happen." The film was rumored from 2019 and Tarantino himself even entertained it, saying his vision was "Pulp Fiction in space." But as time went on hope was lost and in 2020 he said he "probably" wouldn't do it.
Four years later and Tarantino revisited the idea only to confirm it will never actually be made. "There's been so much misinformation about what it was going to be," he said on the podcast. "I mean, nothing but misinformation."
Tarantino added that, because he isn't on social media and able to correct untrue rumors and speculation, stories about what he's working on (or not working on) snowball and are picked up by myriad news outlets.
"Because I'm not shutting that down, because I'm not all connected, then that's just reported as if it's true, and it's true for a couple of weeks because no one knows anything better because I'm not filling them in."
Some directors like DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn, the director of Guardians of the Galaxy, The Suicide Squad, and the upcoming Superman, do use social media as a platform to confirm or deny (and sometimes stoke) rumors.
Tarantino does the same in interviews like this one, of course, but at the cost of things moving a little more slowly. But at least now, after five years of speculation, talk of his Star Trek film can be put to rest.
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Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.
