After thinking more about this, I want to say they're riding a fine line here that will depend on how they execute it, but I don't think a line is there because this is totally uncharted waters for this franchise. If this were any other director making this I would be dismissive, but Tarantino is a very smart man. Given his track record, he deserves to be given the chance. I have to recognize this movie is going to be one of the very few tentpole films where we will not know what to expect and damn if reigniting interest in this didn't work from this idea alone, so I will give them that.
This could be an idea so radical it could just work where a studio who just cynically sees dollar signs will happen to fund an outside the box movie where the right director has that right vision or it could be all the wrong ingredients for a huge disaster. It could be where Tarantino is so far up his ass he imbues more of his own self and ego into ST instead of doing a Nolan or Raimi or Jackson or even recently Villenueve where they found a perfect median of material and personal vision. But the difference between those is just... it's unprecedented. I just hope all of this works for the right reasons, where the risky idea pays off if it's all there in story. If this works, it could very well be a paradigm shifting movie where auteurs are brought in to stagnating franchises to give it a jolt to mixed results, not dissimilar to how studios see cinematic universes now. This could be the next step in how they keep their brands alive. I don't think this corporate, modern branding will go away. So a mixture of the auteur experimental 60's/70's era of film with the modern brand tentpoles. And **** if that isn't better than what we're seeing now. We saw that failed to an extreme with Snyder in this decade, but what if Tarantino succeeds in that area? For God's sake, what if we actually get that Wes Anderson Spider-Man movie? What if we get a Darren Aranofsky Superman movie that actually works out, that darker Superman film that had the potential of MOS but was so squandered? What if Rian Johnson isn't enough for a SW movie anymore (This is pre-mature and unproven, but this is just hypothetical)? What if instead we need a Denis Villenueve to make an R rated SW movie? This is opening up a lot of new possibilities I've never thought of before.
This idea is so radical, so on the other end of the spectrum and something we may not see again, and nothing that's ever been done before so I'll admit I can't wait to see this. The unknown of it all is what excites me. And that's something. The idea of this cast in a Tarantino plot is ****ing fascinating. So getting over my initial response, I'm more excited about this than skeptical. Skepticism is kind of small potatoes in all of this.
I mean for God's sake, in the context of this time for movies where it's become more mechanized and pre-calculated, an experimental ST in principle is something that this industry needs. And the risk of a rating doesn't outweigh that.
