Tarantino’s ‘Inglorious Bastards’ Going ‘Kill Bill’ Double Feature Route?
Does this mean we will have to wait forever for this ultimate DVD as well?
The only thing, and I mean only thing, that bothers me about Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill Volumes One and Two is the fact that Miramax, Disney and the Weinsteins can’t get off their fat asses and release the ultimate DVD edition of those two movies. What gives? Is it because we want it? Is that it? Perhaps if the fans didn’t want it we could get it, sorta like the National Treasure (Collector’s Edition)? Yeah, I heard people on the streets clammoring for that one. Sheesh.
Anyway, this isn’t a bitch session unless you read this latest news from Ain’t It Cool News as an update telling us we will have to wait even longer for Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards as the site has learned that the film is targeted to be split into two films as well.
The news comes as AICN got their hands on a 40-minute interview to be included on the upcoming 3-disc DVD release of Enzo Castellari’s Inglorious Bastards, the film that inspired Tarantino’s version to be released on DVD on July 29 from Severin Films. You can preorder it here.
AICN describes comparison between the two films saying:
The first big thing we learn is that Quentin has been writing almost non-stop on INGLORIOUS BASTARDS - and that the premise is the basic jumping off point from Enzo’s original - that you had a bunch of hardened criminals on a military transport during World War II - that got ambushed by the Nazis. Everyone but the criminals gets killed and the prisoners decide to make their way to neutral Switzerland - and must fight the Nazis and the Allies to get there. It’s a true No Man’s Land scenario.
Word out of the article is that as Quentin has been researching World War II films and the actual events of World War II (remember this script has been in the works for over 6 years) the picture has become huge and will now be spread across two films.
The other interesting tidbit is that Quentin has veered from a typical task of his, and that is he is not writing any of the parts in the film with any one actor/actress in mind. I am sure many of you know the backstory on Uma Thurman as The Bride, Pam Grier as Jackie Brown and so forth. So this will be something of a departure for Tarantino. AICN paraphrases the idea saying, “To allow the character to be everything that character can be and to actually find an actor to become that character.”
You can read the complete report right here.
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