Inglourious Basterds
From The Quentin Tarantino Archives
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Inglourious News
- November 14: Eli Roth is the guest director for the film within the film.
- November 10: Ennio Morricone rumored to do the score.
- October: A press release finally made the title 'Inglourious Basterds' official.
- September 19: Actor Jacky Ido has been cast in the role of Marcel, a film projectionist.
- September 17: French actresses Lea Seydoux & Anne-Sophie Franck have been added to the cast.
- September 7: French actress Melanie Laurent has been cast in the lead female role: Shosanna Dreyfus.
- September 3: Cinematographer Robert Richardson who QT worked with on Kill Bill has been added to the film crew.
- September 2: Actors Til Schweiger and comedian Paul Rust have been added to the cast. No confirmation on which roles they'll be playing. UPDATE: German TV actor Christoph Waltz has also been added to the cast. It is a possibility he will be playing the role of Col. Hans Landa while Daniel Brühl may play another supporting character.
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 American and Italian "men on a mission" World War II movies like The Guns of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare, The Dirty Dozen and Five For Hell. It is also heavily influenced by French New Wave cinema and Spaghetti Westerns.
- Release date: August 21, 2009 (possible premiere at the Cannes Film Festival)
- Color / Black & White
- Written, Produced & Directed by Quentin Tarantino.
- Genre: War / Drama / Action / Adventure
- Sub-title: Once Upon A Time In Nazi Occupied France
- Status: Now In Production. The film is being shot in Germany (and France).
- Script length: approx. 160 pages
- QT has stated that Basterds could be described as a "Spaghetti Western set in France during World War II".
- New York Magazine on the Inglourious Basterds screenplay: "It reads like Kill Bill meets The Dirty Dozen meets Cinema Paradiso."
Synopsis
The film is set in Nazi-occupied France during World War II and centers around a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" who are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
Trivia
- Set in The Realer Than Real World Universe(unconfirmed)