Chris Pine Reacts To Quentin Tarantino Being His Biggest Fan

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Star Trek star Chris Pine reacts to Quentin Tarantino being his biggest fan. Pine first took over the captain’s chair on the Starship Enterprise in J.J. Abrams’ 2009 Trek reboot movie. He has played Kirk two more times since then and will reprise the role again in the highly-anticipated Star Trek 4.

Of course the recently announced Star Trek 4 comes in the wake of a series of Trek movie projects that were reported to be happening but never quite made it out of Spacedock. At different times, both S.J. Clarkson and Noah Hawley were attached to Star Trek movies, only to see their efforts go by the wayside. Most randomly of all though, it was also revealed that writer-director Tarantino – a man known not for science-fiction but violent R-rated action movies like Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction – was working on his own Star Trek project (though not as director). Trek fandom naturally had mixed feelings about the idea of Tarantino bringing his decidedly profane sensibilities to the relatively sedate world of Star Trek. Tarantino did later reveal however that when it came to the newly rebooted Trek movies, his primary interest was actually in the character of Kirk as played by Pine, an actor he called his favorite of today’s leading men.

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Unfortunately it now seems the world will never get to see what Tarantino had in mind for Star Trek and his favorite leading man as his project is not moving forward. For his part, Pine has expressed appreciation for the kind words Tarantino has spoken about him and his work in Star Trek. Speaking to THR recently, Pine said:

“Of course, I’m extremely flattered. Just on a personal level, I used to take my mom [Gwynne Gilford]