'Inglorious Bastards' Goes With Pitt, Roth and Novak in Early Casting
We have a lead and two other yahoos, now what?
Hey look, it's real news about a Quentin Tarantino movie that is actually in production as opposed to that Britney Spears bullshit that was being tossed around yesterday. Today we get word that Brad Pitt has signed on the dotted line and will star in Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards and joining him in early casting are Eli Roth (director of Hostel) and B.J. Novak ("The Office", Knocked Up).
Pitt will play a Tennessee hillbilly who assembles a team of eight Jewish-American soldiers. Eli Roth will play the role of Sgt. Donnie Donowitz, and Tarantino is locking in the other seven American actors who make up the Bastards team. Novak is expected to play PFC Utivich, described as a soldier of slight build who comes from New York.
The film centers on 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.
Picture begins production Oct. 13 in Germany and Tarantino has said how he hopes to have the film ready for the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, which begins May 13, 2009.
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