Quentin Tarantino says that, actually, "Pulp Fiction in space" is exactly what his Star Trek movie will be

It’s beginning—against all odds—to seem increasingly possible that Quentin Tarantino might actually soon be making an in-canon, certified, R-rated Star Trek movie, complete with, like, phasers and shit. And while certain folks more intimately connected with the franchise (namely Simon Pegg, who both stars in, and writes for, it) have tried to downplay how radically Tarantino might stretch the bounds of what Star Trek is with this little prospective side project—suggesting that it won’t be, say, “Pulp Fiction in space”—Tarantino fired back yesterday by suggesting that, actually, fuck that, because “Pulp Fiction in space” is exactly what it’ll be.

“I get annoyed at Simon Pegg,” Tarantino noted in a recent interview with Deadline, mostly centered on the upcoming release of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. “He doesn’t know anything about what’s going on and he keeps making all these comments as if he knows about stuff. One of the comments he said, he’s like ‘Well, look, it’s not going to be Pulp Fiction in space.’ Yes, it is! If I do it, that’s exactly what it’ll be.” Tarantino noted that he doesn’t know yet whether he’ll direct the film, but that he has total faith in the script, written by The Revenant’s Mark L. Smith, which is apparently filled to the brim with Pulpy goodness. “It’ll be Pulp Fiction in space,” Tarantino continued. “That Pulp Fiction-y aspect, when I read the script, I felt, I have never read a science fiction movie that has this shit in it, ever. There’s no science fiction movie that has this in it. And they said, I know, that’s why we want to make it. It’s, at the very least, unique in that regard.”