Tarantino’s Star Trek Movieis quite the mystery. Quentin Tarantino has come up with an idea, and is eyeing to direct with J.J. Abrams to producing. Paramount hasn’t yet announced if any of the stars fromStar Trek,Star Trek Into Darknessand last year’sStar Trek Beyondwill be back for this movie, but at least one star wants to return. During an interview with Larry King, John Cho, who playsSulu, addressed the stories about Quentin Tarantino’sStar Trekmovie, stating nothing is official yet. But he would in fact love to come back as Sulu. Here’s what he had to say.
“What I heard is that they met. I haven’t heard an official announcement. I don’t know. I hope so. I think he’s brilliant. I would like to do some Quentin Tarantino dialogue as Sulu.”
While it may not be still officially announced by Paramount yet, this project seems to be moving forward, withwriter Mark L. Smith(The Revenant) coming aboard to write the script. This project came to be after director Quentin Tarantino took hisStar Trekpitch to Paramount, which he shared with J.J. Abrams, with the original report claiming that there would be a writers room assembled for this project. Mark L. Smith was part of the writers room that convened last month, which also included Lindsey Beer (Godzilla vs. Kong), Drew Pearce (Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation) and Megan Amram (The Good Place), but Mark L. Smith came away with the writing gig. We also reported last month thatPatrick Stewart wants to return as Jean-Luc Picardfor this movie, but whether or not that will happen remains unclear. While asked about how much fun playing Sulu is, John Cho had this to say in his interview with Larry King.
“Me and my little brother and I used to pretend we flew spaceships as a kid, as all little boys did, so when you get on the set of theEnterprise, it awakens all of those childlike feelings. It’s to scale, it’s huge, you grew up on it on television, so it is a very unique acting opportunity.”
It was also revealed last month thatTarantino’s Star Trek movie will be R-rated, since the filmmaker has never made a movie in his storied career that hasn’t been rated R. Larry King even brought this up during his interview, which you can check out in the embed below.
