Inglourious Basterds
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Non-spoler screenplay and set review: Harry watched some INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS kill over a hundred Nazis in Germany! -- Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
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Plot:Inglourious Basterds is an upcoming ensemble war film/spaghetti western written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It has the largest cast of characters (with speaking roles) of any Tarantino film to date and is currently in production with several locations, among them Germany and France. Tarantino plans to complete production of Inglourious Basterds in time for release at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2009. Filming began in October 2008. The title (and partial premise) of the upcoming film is inspired by Italian director Enzo Castellari's 1978 movie Inglorious Bastards. The Weinstein Company has slated August 21, 2009 as the tentative U.S. release date.
During World War II a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" 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.
Cast
The Allies
The Basterds
* Brad Pitt as Lt. Aldo Raine aka "Aldo the Apache": An illiterate hillbilly from the mountains of Tennessee, who puts together a team of eight Jewish-American soldiers. He bears a rope burn on his neck, which will never be mentioned in the film (the script hints that he might have survived a lynching). One of the film´s main protagonists: the character has been described as "a voluble, freewheeling outlaw" similar to Jules Winnfield from Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. His first appearance in the film is a subtle homage to George Carlin's The Indian Sergeant routine.
* Eli Roth as Sgt. Donnie Donowitz: "A baseball bat-swinging Nazi hunter" who is known as "The Bear Jew" among Nazis. Some of them seem to believe that Donowitz is in fact, a vengeful golem. It is rumored that the role was originally conceived for Adam Sandler, who was in talks with Tarantino before declining due to schedule conflicts with the film Funny People.
* B. J. Novak as PFC Utivich aka "The Little One"
* Til Schweiger as Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz: A German-born psychopath recruited by Aldo Raine to kill Nazis.
* Samm Levine as PFC Hirschberg
* Omar Doom as PFC Ulmer
* Michael Bacall as Zimmerman, a nod to Bob Dylan
* Gedeon Burkhard as CPL. Wilhelm Wicki: An Austrian Jew.
* Paul Rust as an unnamed bastard
The British
* Michael Fassbender as Lt. Archie Hicox: A "snappy and handsome British Lieutenant" and movie buff. He is described in the script as a "young George Sanders type". One of the film´s main protagonists, albeit introduced later in the movie.
* Mike Myers as Gen. Ed Fenech: A British "military mastermind" who provides a plot to kill Nazi leadership.
* Rod Taylor as Winston Churchill: The then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
The Jews (Occupied French)
* Mélanie Laurent as Shoshanna Dreyfus: A young Jewish girl on the run. One of the film´s main protoganists.
* Léa Seydoux as Young Shoshanna
* Cloris Leachman as Mrs. Himmelstein
The Axis Powers
The Nazis
* Christoph Waltz as Col. Hans Landa: A charming yet sinister pipe-smoking Nazi officer nicknamed "The Jew Hunter" in reference to his keen ability to locate Jews hiding throughout France. The primary antagonist of the film.
* Daniel Brühl as Frederick Zoller: A young German war hero starring in Joseph Goebbels newest Propaganda Film (entitled "Stolz der Nation") which is actually directed by Eli Roth.
* August Diehl as Major Deiter Hellstrom
* Sönke Möhring as Private Butz
* Richard Sammel as Sgt. Werner Rachtman
* Sylvester Groth as Joseph Goebbels
* Martin Wuttke as Adolf Hitler
Other Roles
* Samuel L. Jackson as The Narrator
* Diane Kruger as Bridget von Hammersmark: A popular film star in Nazi Germany and a spy for the Allies.
* Julie Dreyfus as Francesca Mondino: Joseph Goebbel's mistress, French interpreter and favourite actress to appear in his films.
* Maggie Cheung as Madame Mimeux: A beautiful French woman who owns a cinema in Paris.
* Ludger Pistor as Wolfgang, a role Tarantino added specifically for him.
* Christian Berkel as Eric: The Barkeeper
* Jacky Ido as Marcel: Shosanna´s beloved and a projectionist at Mimeux´s cinema
* Denis Menochet as Perrier LaPadite
* Jana Pallaske as an unconfirmed character
* Enzo G. Castellari has said that Tarantino "wrote him a small part in the script."He has been seen walking around the set wearing a Nazi costume.
Sources:
The Quentin Tarantino Archives
Wikipedia
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
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