Quentin Tarantino's R-Rated Star Trek Movie

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I'll be honest I have really mixed feelings about this happening. I mean I love the Star Trek movies, the good ones that is but to have it go all bloody, sex and so much profanity isn't what Star Trek is about, at least not to Tarantino level. Some people are actually fine with it and I don't know why I'm not. I'm just afraid that something inappropriate might disgust me like showing a guy's penis or raping someone or two blokes having sex. I mean I got nothing against gay men but I don't wanna watch that kind of thing, especially in Star Trek. I mean I don't mind hearing the F word in a movie but to have it said all the time in a Star Trek movie doesn't seem right. Maybe I'm just being paranoid but it kind of scares me about what might happen.

I don't see the problem or why anyone should care. ESRB ratings are just shy of being completely worthless, and personally as an Australian I find American ratings weird in what they consider potentially offensive. Star Trek seems like it's always been a series that has wanted to explore mature themes, but given its origin as a television series in the 1960s it was obviously never allowed to show a lot. It's half a century since then and sensibilities have changed.

If anything I think the long held aversion to R ratings by filmmakers has been a key factor in the decline of cinema.

Is this for real? Not just hypothetical?

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Nope, it's true. However, it's interesting that this may be the first film Tarantino won't be directing from his own script.

http://deadline.com/2017/12/quentin-tarantino-star-trek-r-rating-mark-l-smith-the-revenant-drew-pearce-lindsay-beer-jj-abrams-1202222161/

Like many Trek fans, I do have my fingers crossed that he, JJ Abrams, and Paramount won't see eye-to-eye and that his vision will fall apart.