Things that never were... Back in 2017, Tarantino publicly pitched the idea of a feature-length riff on the 1968 original series episode A Piece of the Action, which is set on an Earth-like planet where a 1930s gangster culture prevails. Writer Mark L Smith, who was hired by Paramount to write a long-since-abandoned Star Trek script for the Pulp Fiction film-maker to direct, seems to think so, he confirms the film would have been bloodthirsty R-rated and not a little sweary. The movie was eventually abandoned because QT couldn’t get his head around the idea of it being his 10th and final film.









