Quentin Tarantino did a 40-minute interview with Enzo Castellari, the director of the original Inglorious Bastards (which Tarantino’s film is very loosely inspired by) for the three disc special edition dvd release. AICN has seen the interview and has a detailed rundown, which includes a few juicy tidbits about Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards.
- Two Films: Quentin says the story is too big for one movie, and will be split into two films, ala Kill Bill.
- The Story: Set in World War II, Tarantino’s screenplay begins with a bunch of hardened criminals on a military transport that gets ambushed by Nazis. The prisoners escape and must fight the Nazis and the Allies on their journey to neutral Switzerland. How cool is that?
- Casting: Over the years many names have been mentioned as being involved in the film. The list has included: Michael Madsen, Tim Roth, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Paul Walker, Adam Sandler, Eddie Murphy, Johnny Depp, John Travolta, Harvey Keitel, Fred Williamson, John Jarratt, Mickey Rourke and Christopher Walken. Tarantino now claims that the names were just conversations and nothing more. Apparently, Tarantino, who usually writes his characters with specific actors in mind, he decided to go the more traditional route with Bastards by characters unlimited by dream castings.
Tarantino announced at Cannes that he finally completed the screenplay, and that “if all goes well [pregnant pause] I will be here 2009 at Cannes with my war film INGLORIOUS BASTARDS!!!” The film is supposedly in preproduction, and I’m still more skeptical than ever that Tarantino will be able to finish not one, but two films by May of 2009. But we’ll see. At least he’s finally making the movie.
June 19th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
*yawn*
June 19th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
And this is a good thing, why?
June 19th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
I’ll give it a chance. The Castellari version is brilliant!
June 19th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
I can’t wait!
June 19th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Quentin Tarantino is an inglorious bastard, but I’m looking forward to this I suppose.
June 19th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Yes! I’m very glad to hear that Inglorious Bastards will be two films. Surprised that QT didn’t bring out his “climb the mountain” analogy, because this is going to be next levs. If he pulls this out after the epic endeavor/masterpiece that was Kill Bill (still sort of underrated imo), he deserves his own church and his brain deserves its own cheerleader squad and mascot.
June 19th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
@ harrycaul
Dude, no.
June 19th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Bring it!
June 19th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
As long as Ahhhnold Schwartz, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis and some old schoolers are in it then im in for it!!!!!
June 19th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
i bet this won’t be that great. i’m tired of tarantino and all his hype.
June 19th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
this will be f-ing epic, but i’m confused by this: “he decided to go the more traditional route with Bastards by characters unlimited by dream castings.”
it’s probably me being stupid, but i’m still not clear on how he’s gonna be casting…sorry, can someone please clear it up for me.
i also doubt he’ll finish by the self-projected time, but i’m glad the ball is rolling. i always look to a new tarantino release as an ‘event’ - if that makes sense.
June 19th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Geeze, FINALLY. I thought I read that he scrapped this project. Well this is cool, I’m looking forward to it.
June 19th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
it isn’t hype if the movies are great, lotus eater
June 19th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
QT talks big. I’d love to see this come to fruition, but seriously, c’mon.
(Does anyone know where I can see Grindhouse front-to-back?)
June 19th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
*Taps fingers impatiently…*
June 19th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
@ Joe
So what. He talks huge, but the dude delivers huge everytime, even when it’s slightly off like Grindhouse. I don’t really understand the negativity aimed at QT. It’s cool to get an inside look at the projects rolling around in someone’s hyper mind. I’ve always liked QT’s openess about his creative process — it’s like an involuntary cocktease, sure — but it’s uncensored, unfiltered and it’s preferred over the polite PR-addled swerving so many directors do nowadays. He has a vision that doesn’t fizzle as he ages. Is that a fault?
The guy likes to talk, but the ball is rolling on his huge WW2 movie(s) - which he wrote and wrote and wrote. You can’t expect the guy to pour movies like a pregnant swine, and it’s odd how so many people will defend lesser directors over one of the living greats. QT has proven himself. He gets a lifelong pass. All of the “yeah, but he steals everything” arguments are so tired. Compare Kill Bill — its sheer originality, and the balls it takes to give a female such a tasty, epic, emotional role even now (sad) — to all of the shit that gets remade and remade or ripped from other sources. Have some faith, and prepare to see some Nazis bite the dust like never before. Some people act like this is Michael Jordan coming back to play for the Wizards. It’s not…at all. What the hell.
June 19th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
a war film is perfectly suited for Tarantino’s strengths - ie. guys bleeding in a foxhole and arguing about Nazi design while they prepare to attack a tank. It’s everything that was missing from Death Proof.
Can’t wait.
2 films? Glorious.
June 19th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Awesome there more Quentin movies the better! Hunter i like what you said about M.J Quentin has never made a bad movie so what does he have to come back from?Oh and Kill Bill best movie ever! :)
June 20th, 2008 at 12:19 am
The effects of “Cocaine” ladys and gentlemen.
June 20th, 2008 at 1:09 am
I’m with Hunter and would have his babies.
Still no word on the fully uncut Kill Bill? …anyone?
:’(
June 20th, 2008 at 1:27 am
quote… Still no word on the fully uncut Kill Bill? …anyone? — end of quote
Why don’t you just buy it? I am from germany and I imported the uncut japanese cut directly from japan. Was not a big deal.
June 20th, 2008 at 1:35 am
No offense Marc , but I’m fine with the 2 disc versions.
I don’t see a need to spend more money on the same product (BluRay) just so I don’t have to get up and changes discs.
What’s with this 2 films are better than one trend from Tarrantino? Sure didn’t work for Grind House.
June 20th, 2008 at 6:47 am
I second that yawn. 790 hit the nail on the head.
June 20th, 2008 at 7:07 am
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST FINALLY FINALLY.
that is all.
this little piece of news has taken so fucking long to be real.
now on to the next phase of waiting for it:
actually waiting for it.
June 20th, 2008 at 10:55 am
790,
As for Grindhouse, The Weinsteins didn’t market or produce any media that showed how the design of those two films worked. You can ask anyone who saw those films and what they thought of the trailers prior to the films launch.
In the end, the Weinsteins fucked up plaing and simple and didn’t market it right. I knew some people who left right after the first film thinking that was it. Even with the fake trailers.
June 20th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Are you sure Cap? Anyone that went into this without knowing its 2 films is pretty dense. (IMO) I think it just didn’t interest enough people.
^
I saw Grindhouse in the theaters because it was really slow at work.
I had really no intention of seeing it.
I thought the inbetween trailers were classics. (Don’t open the door and Thanksgiving LMAO).
Planet Terror was just another Zombie Comedy with a leg-gun gag.
(showing more Willis in the trailer might have helped).
And Death Proof was allmost unwatchable. Listening to 3 skanks talk like Tarantino was nausiating.
I found myself enjoying the first car crash if for nothing just to shut that bitch up. (You know the bitch I’m talking about, leg hanging out the window).
Besides “Machette” my favorite part of the films was the last 2 seconds of death proof when the girls all high five.
June 20th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
“Set in World War II, Tarantino’s screenplay begins with a bunch of hardened criminals on a military transport that gets ambushed by Nazis. The prisoners escape and must fight the Nazis and the Allies on their journey to neutral Switzerland. How cool is that?”
Really? I’m the first to point out it’s just a slightly modified Dirty Dozen?
June 20th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Tarantino modifies alot of films.
whoever said Kill-Bill was original hasn’t seen enough japanese movies.
June 20th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Loved Death Proof and Planet Terror. The fake trailers were just icing on the cake. The dialogue in DP was my favorite part, since it was an homage to Vanishing Point.
Kill Bill was an amalgam of the 3 things Quentin grew-up on. Kung-fu cinema, spaghetti westerns, and blaxploitation. Quentin has stated this plenty of times. Along with the films he was inspired by. KB is original in the fact that he menaged to merge all 3 and make a coherent and great film out of it. Along with a soundtrack that invokes all 3 of these genres. Ennio Morricone with the likes of Isaac Hayes and RZA? Thats fucking excellent.
Tarantino respects HK and Japanese cinema immensely. And it was evident when he had Sonny Chiba and Gordon Liu in them. Even going as far as using the “original” cameras used for those classics in sequences involving Pai Mei.
June 20th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Wow, well not me Caps, that dialog in death proof was awefull. (I allmost walked on that but I wanted to see the action). It was allmost like I was been forced to sit on crap to eat my cake.
The dialog sounded like it was written for bikers not stoner girls. And forget M Knights camoes Tarantino’s cameo was forced and he looked too much like a out of breath director.
Russell was awesome as the Stunt Driver and yeah forget a remake of EFNY just shoot the next one with Kurt set after EFLA. !!! Brolin can bite me!
Don’t get me wrong, I thought Kill-Bill was awesome and he’s got talent but its clear why Grindhouse bombed.
Winestiens totally punished both directors for the bomb by not putting them out on the same dvd. That’s inside punishment big-time. And they didn’t care about the fans , “what fans” was there pov.
June 21st, 2008 at 1:27 pm
CANT WAIT LOVE THAT GUY
August 11th, 2008 at 9:21 am
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