Variety is reporting that Quentin Tarantino's next film, Inglorious Bastards will be distributed, for the most part, by Universal Pictures in a joint venture with the Weinstein Co. Tarantino and Harvey Weinstein met with five studios last week and it came down to Paramount and Universal with Universal winning out.

I recently just got the script and haven't yet had a chance to crack it open and give it a read, but early script reviews have been positive. The film is said to follow 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.

Tarantino has met with Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio to star in the feature which is scheduled to begin in the fall in Germany and France.

Tarantino has said he hoped he could bring the film to the Cannes Film Festival in 2009, but who knows if that will come to fruition.

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