Quentin Tarantino Star Trek R-Rated Mark L. Smith, Drew Pearce, Lindsay Beer | Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: After Deadline this week revealed that Quentin Tarantino pitched a Star Trek film to JJ Abrams and Paramount, the whole thing is moving at warp speed. Tarantino met for hours in a writers room with Mark L. Smith, Lindsey Beer, and Drew Pearce. They kicked around ideas and one of them will get the job. I?m hearing the frontrunner is Smith, who wrote The Revenant. The film will most certainly go where no Star Trek has gone before: Tarantino has required it to be R rated, and Paramount and Abrams agreed to that condition. Most mega budget tent poles restrict the film to a PG-13 rating in an effort to maximize the audience. That was the reason that Guillermo Del Toro?s $150 million At The Mountains of Madness didn?t go forward at Universal, even though Tom Cruise was ready to star. The exception to this rule was Fox?s Deadpool, but that film started out with modest ambitions before it caught on and became the biggest R rated film ever.