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Cast: Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Diane Kruger, Michael Fassbender, Daniel Brühl, B. J. Novak and Til Schweiger

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Writer: Quentin Tarantino

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Inglourious Basterds is an upcoming epic ensemble war film. During World War II, in Nazi-occupied France, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as “The Basterds” are chosen specifically to scalp and brutally kill Nazis in order to spread fear throughout the Third Reich.

The movie has two story lines; one following “The Basterds” and the other following a young French-Jewish woman who seeks to avenge the death of her parents. The story lines converge when the Basterds cross paths with the young girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.

Brad Pitt in the film Inglourious Basterds

Filming began in October 2008 and was filmed in several locations, among them Germany and France. The title and partial premise of the film are inspired by the Italian director Enzo Castellari‘s movie Inglourious Bastards from 1978, but it is not a remake of the film. The Weinstein Company has stated that August 20, 2009 is the tentative U.S. release date. According to the movie´s webpage the movie will be released on August 21, 2009.

The director of the film has repeatedly stressed that despite it being a war film, the movie will be a “spaghetti-western but with World War II iconography“.

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Scenes from the movie

Here is a clip of behind the scenes action and the first look at Mike Myers as General Ed Fenech

A scene where Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) interrogates a German about the locations of their camps and the artillery they have, but he respectively declines the offer and decides to die for his country

A clip where Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) tells Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) that there have been two recent developments in the operation

Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) and the Basterds come to the rescue of Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz (Til Schweiger), who has been named a serial killer of Nazis

Interviews

Anne Curry from the Today Show talks to Brad Pitt about the film Inglourious Basterds while they are at the Cannes Film Festival

Anne Curry talked to Director Quentin Tarantino about the idea behind the film, Mike Meyers (General Ed Fenech) about Quentin’s style, and Diane Kruger (Bridget von Hammersmark) about why she chose to do this film

Trivia provided by The Internet Movie Database:

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• In 2005, Quentin Tarantino was quoted as saying that he had written the script, a World War II story, but that he needed to convert it to a shooting script. He said that writing the script and preparing a shooting script were “two different things”.
• Quentin Tarantino started writing this movie before Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) but could not decide on a good ending and decide to put it on hold to do Kill Bill with Uma Thurman, a project he had been mentally preparing since Pulp Fiction (1994).
• Quentin Tarantino has said that he intends for this to be as much a war film as a spaghetti western, and has said he considered titling the movie “Once Upon a Time in Nazi-Occupied France”. He gave that title instead to one of the chapters of the film.
• Quentin Tarantino worked on the script for almost a decade.
• David Krumholtz dropped out due a scheduling conflict and Samm Levine took his place.
• British actor Simon Pegg was originally set to play Lt. Archie Hicox but was forced to pull out of the project because of scheduling conflicts. Michael Fassbender replaced him.
• Tarantino approached Adam Sandler to play Sgt. Donnie Donowitz. But Sandler had to turn it down because the schedule conflicted with the filming of Funny People (2009).
• The role of Francesca Mondino was written especially for Julie Dreyfus, who played a similar character in Quentin’s previous movie, Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003).
• Nastassja Kinski was in talks for the role of Bridget Von Hammersmark; Tarantino even flew to Germany to meet the actress, but a deal wasn’t reached.
• The name of Brad Pitt’s character, Lt. Aldo Raine, is a homage to actor Aldo Ray.
• Eli Roth’s character, Sgt. Donnie Donowitz, is part of the Tarantino-verse, sharing the last name of the film producer character, Lee Donowitz, in the Tarantino-written True Romance (1993). The Lee Donowitz character also produced a war film “Comin’ Home in a Body Bag”.
• Isabelle Huppert was the first choice for Madame Mimieux. But the actress’ behavior (too ‘divistic’) apparently irritated Quentin Tarantino so he replaced her with screen siren Maggie Cheung.
• Michael Madsen was originally announced to star as a character named Babe Buchinsky.
• Tim Roth was in talks with Tarantino to play Lt. Archie Hicox.
• Leonardo DiCaprio wanted to play Hans Landa, but Quentin Tarantino wanted a German actor to play the part.
• According to Eddie Murphy, he was in talks with Tarantino for a role in the film.
• Despite being Brad Pitt and Quentin Tarantino’s first time working together, Brad had co-starred in True Romance (1993) (which was written by Tarantino).
• The name of Mike Myers’ character is a homage to actress Edwige Fenech.
• The name of Til Schweiger’s character, Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz, is a homage to the legendary Mexican actor Hugo Stiglitz.
• The name of ‘Brad Pitt (I)’’s character, Lt. Aldo Raine, is a homage to the actor and WW2 veteran Aldo Ray.
• On German advertisement materials, the swastika was removed or covered up as it was unclear to the distributor if this violates German law (which prohibits the exhibition of Nazi symbols except for i.e. art or science).
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• SPOILER: The scar on Aldo Raine’s neck will not be mentioned throughout the film. However, it hints that Aldo survived lynching, a common punishment in the early 1900’s.