'Star Trek' Star Calls Quentin Tarantino's Idea for the Franchise 'Crazy'
Simon Pegg, who played Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in'sStar Trekfilm franchise, is addressing famed director, 's proposed plan for an unmade Star Trek project.
Collider reported that Pegg commented on Tarantino's Star Trek script during the August 2025 Fan Expo in Boston. Pegg stated that while he didn't get the chance to look at Tarantino's script, Abrams, and Star Trek producer, Lindsey Weber, filled him in. According to Pegg, Tarantino's fans wouldn't be surprised by his alleged vision for Star Trek.
'That was what we call in the business bats--t crazy. It was everything you would expect a Quentin Tarantino Star Trek script to be," said Pegg during the Fan Expo panel.
Pegg also suggested he believed Star Trek fans wouldn't have loved the unmade Tarantino project.
'I think it would have been such an incredible sort of curio to see Star Trek through his lens. I don't know how it would have gone over with the fans, but it certainly would have been an interesting thing," said Pegg to the Fan Expo audience.
According to Collider, reports of a Tarantino Star Trek project began circulating in 2017. Tarantino hinted at the possibility of him working on a Star Trek project in a 2019 interview on CinemaBlend's ReelBlend podcast. He noted that he has long said he would only make 10 movies in his career before retiring. Tarantino's latest and ninth film was the 2019 movie, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood. While recording the ReelBlend podcast episode, he said he could have "a loophole" to take on directing more films if it wasn't his original idea, like Star Trek.
"I guess I do have a loophole, [if] the idea was to throw a loophole into it. Which would be [to go], 'Uhhh, I guess Star Trek doesn't count. I can do Star Trek … but naturally I would end on an original,'" said the director. "But the idea of doing 10 isn't to come up with a loophole. I actually think, if I was going to do Star Trek, I should commit to it. It's my last movie. There should be nothing left handed about it. I don't know if I'm going to do that, but that might happen."
Tarantino gave an update about his proposed Star Trek project in an August 2024 interview on the Club Random with Bill Maher podcast.
"It's never going to happen," said Tarantino during the podcast interview.
He also said reports have been inaccurate about his proposed Star Trek script.
"There's been so much misinformation about what it was going to be. Nothing but misinformation," said Tarantino.
'Star Trek' Star Calls Quentin Tarantino's Idea for the Franchise 'Crazy' first appeared on Parade on Aug 12, 2025
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