Inglorious Bastards

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Inglorious Bastards is an upcoming war film to be written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino finished the script in January 2007. The title is taken from the 1977 movie Quel maledetto treno blindato. The film was directed by the Italian director Enzo G. Castellari and was known in the United States as Inglorious Bastards. Tarantino's film is not intended to be a remake, but rather a homage to the earlier film, as well as Eastern Condors, The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, Where Eagles Dare, Cross of Iron and other war movies.

Plot outline

A band of U.S. soldiers facing death by firing squad for their misdeeds are given a chance to redeem themselves by heading into the perilous no-man's lands of Nazi-occupied France on a suicide mission for the Allies.

Background

In an interview with Vanity Fair, Tarantino revealed that one of the projects he worked on in the six years in between the releases of Jackie Brown and Kill Bill was trying to hammer Inglorious Bastards down as a script. Instead of a conventional 100 to 200 page script, he wrote a 600 page work in three feature-length parts. In a September 2005 interview, Tarantino said that while Inglorious Bastards will "probably" be his next feature, the screenplay was at least a year from being ready,^[1] so it is not known whether the film will be shortened, turned into a series, or released in multiple parts, like Kill Bill. Tarantino said in late March 2007 that he's going to finish writing the script to Inglorious Bastards while he's doing publicity for Grindhouse.^[2] In an interview with Charlie Rose, Tarantino claimed Inglorious Bastards to be the best written script out of all of his work. If produced, Inglorious Bastards is expected to star Michael Madsen as Babe Buchinsky. In 2005 internet blogs reported that Madsen had stated that several major stars had been attached to the project.^[3][4] However, the same blogs also reported that Madsen said filming would "definitely" start in 2005. In a September 2005 interview with MTV, Tarantino denied that anyone besides Madsen had been cast, and stated that all other casting reports are nothing more than speculation.^[1]

References

External links

• Inglorious Bastards at the Internet Movie Database