Inglorious Bastards
From The Quentin Tarantino Archives
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Overview
This is not a remake of the 1977 Italian war movie Quel Maledetto Treno Blindato aka Inglorious Bastards but it is partly a homage to it (as far as the same title) and various other "men on a mission" World War II movies like The Guns of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare, The Dirty Dozen and Five For Hell.
- Written, Produced & Directed by Quentin Tarantino.
- Genre: War
- Sub-title: Once Upon A Time In Nazi Occupied France
- Status: Script editing.
- QT's original idea for Bastards became a lengthy script/novel which he now has to work out so it will fit the best viewing format. QT has inferred that the multiple episode, TV mini-series format is a strong possibility.
- QT has stated that Bastards could be described as a "Spaghetti Western set in France during World War II".
Synopsis
The film will be set in Nazi occupied France during World War 2 and center around a rag tag group of soldiers that are sent on a deadly mission as an alternative to being court-martialed or put to death. The film's story is loosely based on the premise of The Dirty Dozen.
Cast and Credits
- Rumored: Michael Madsen (as Babe Buchinsky), Adam Sandler, Paul Walker, Eddie Murphy, Sylvester Stallone, Tim Roth, Julie Dreyfus, and Bo Svenson. To date, in separate interviews, both Eddie Murphy and Sly Stallone reported that they have talked with Tarantino about roles in the film.
Trivia
Articles
- The Guardian - Tuesday April 4, 2000 - Tarantino on the war path: Those fearing for Quentin Tarantino's sanity may well be turning still more uneasy today. The Reservoir Dogs director is hard at work on a script which contains a tailor-made role for gurning American comic Adam Sandler. Discussing the project at a Miramax Oscar party with a journalist from the Daily Mail, the Reservoir Dogs director described the film as a gung-ho second world war movie in the style of The Dirty Dozen. "I've got a bunch of guys fighting the Nazis, and there's a part for Adam Sandler, and I hope he'll be crazy enough to do it." If and when the script is completed, the film will be Tarantino's first since Jackie Brown in 1997 and only his second in the last seven years. But while Tarantino's star has effectively dropped out of sight, Sandler's has risen at an alarming rate. A breakthrough role in The Wedding Singer led to last year's hit comedy Big Daddy and to the stand-up comic currently commanding an alleged fee of $20m per picture. In addition to toiling on his war movie script, Tarantino has filled his days with some other writing work. He has written the liner notes for one section of Columbia's forthcoming Johnny Cash box-set Love, God and Murder. While he wrote for the Murder section, U2 frontman Bono tackled God and Cash's wife Jane Carter penned the Love notes.
- Filmstalker.com - Friday March 30 2007 - Tarantino to finish writing Inglorious Bastards: Quentin Tarantino has confirmed that Inglorious Bastards is definitely a film he's going to make. He says that he's going to use the time needed to promote Grindhouse worldwide to finish writing the script: "I am going to kind of go on the road with this, around the earth here. I haven't really done it in a big way in a long time where you spend six months doing it. But I also like writing on the road, it's a really good time to do that so I will probably finish up 'Inglorious Bastards' while I am promoting 'Grindhouse'." The comments come from a Grindhouse press junket and it sounds like we could be seeing a script when he's finished the press tour.
- There's a lot of talk about the film to date with rumored casting and talk of the script being in three parts and therefore three films. I guess we have to wait a little longer to find out how it's going to turn out.
External links
- Inglorious Bastards at the Internet Movie Database