Two years ago, Quentin Tarantino famously told an audience at the Jerusalem Film Festival that he planned to make just 10 films before retiring, beginning with Reservoir Dogs. (True Romance, the Tony Scott-directed movie Tarantino wrote, apparently doesn’t make the cut, perfect as it is.
) The rules, it seems, are somewhat fungible—“Even if at 75, if I have this other story to tell, it would still kind of work because that would make those 10,” he said at the time, “It doesn’t contaminate the other 10”—so it’s not clear if the director’s latest idea would make the cut, but here it is anyways. According to a new report by Deadline, Tarantino devised a concept for a new Star Trek film, told J.J. Abrams (the producer of the most recent cinematic reboots of the series), and, because there is an immense amount of privilege in being a respected white male auteur, is now planning to convene a writer’s room to execute his idea. Then, the pitch goes, he might direct the movie. Might. Let’s just hope it doesn’t interfere with his retirement plans.It would make number 10 of Tarantino’s proposed 10 films, with the ninth being the upcoming Manson murders film, in which Margot Robbie is maybe playing Sharon Tate. Of course, it’s possible that Tarantino taking up the mantle of someone else’s franchise wouldn’t even count, given that the rules are loose at best. (Death Proof, which he co-headlined with Robert Rodriguez, doesn’t figure…
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