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Diane Kruger, mais conhecida do grande público pela sua participação nos filmes “O Tesouro" e “Tróia” foi a última a assinar contrato com Quentin Tarantino para o seu novo filme, “Inglorious Bastards”.

Em Inglorious Bastards Kruger será uma francesa judia, cuja família foi morta por nazis, e que trabalha no cinema onde estes querem passar propaganda política. O filme debruçar-se-á sobre um grupo de soldados americanos, a trabalhar dentro das linhas do inimigo, que matam brutalmente membros do partido nazi e que planeiam usar a estreia do filme nos seus planos de ferir a máquina militar alemã.

Também recentemente contratado foi o alemão Til Schweiger (“Tomb Raider 2”), que dará vida um dos membros da equipa americana. Schweiger junta-se então a Brad Pitt, Myke Myers, Eli Roth, B.J. Novak e Michael Fassbender.

O filme encontra-se de momento em pré-produção; o ínicio das filmagens está marcado para 13 de Outubro na Alemanha, com vista em estrear o filme em Maio na próxima edição do Festival de Cannes.

Fonte: www.hollywoodreporter.com

Two new actors have been added to the cast of Quentin Tarantino's forthcoming World War 2 movie Inglorious Bastards, and since both are German, you can bet your millions they'll be playing Germans. The lucky thespians are Diane Kruger (the National Treasure films) and Til Schweiger (King Arthur).

Diane Kruger, who mainly alternates between French and American films, isn't one of the biggest names in entertainment yet, but chalk that up to the fact her acting career only started six years ago. I personally think she's a wonderful actress and physically stunning to boot. In the fim, she'll play a German actress who help the the heroes infiltrate a movie premiere.

As for Til Schweiger, international audiences may not be overly familiar with him, but he's one of Germany's biggest stars, where he is dubbed the "German Brad Pitt", and you'll soon be able to seem him in director Uwe Boll's next "masterpiece", the Far Cry video game adaptation.

Inglorious Bastards, which has been a pet project of Quentin Tarantino's for years, will be a remake of an Italian film from 1978 that is also known as G.I. Bro, Deadly Mission, Hell's Heroes and Counterfeit Commandos. Described as in the vein of The Dirty Dozen, the film will tell the story of a group of Jewish-American soldiers behind enemy lines (France, specifically) who spend their time scalping Nazis.

In addition to Kruger and Schweiger, the cast includes Brad Pitt (the American one), Mike Myers (The Love Guru), Eli Roth (director of the Hostel films) and Samm Levine (Sydney White). Inglorious Bastards will start filming next month in Berlin and is expected to premiere at next year's Cannes Film Festival.

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Nace TEASERLAND, un festival de teaser trailers de películas inexistentes. El objetivo no es otro que el de generar en el espectador interés hacia la futura película através de un pequeño collage de imágenes . Quizás, inspirado por piezas como las que acompañaban a Grindhouse (Machete de Robert Rodríguez, Thanksgiving de Eli Roth, Werewolf Women of the SS de Rob Zombie o Don't de Edgar Wright) el cineasta de Lleída, Jaume Balagueró se ha convertido en el impulsor de este festival tan peculiar. Las condiciones del mismo permiten presentarse a cualquiera que tenga una pieza de un máximo de 90 segundos, 100% original y grabada con cualquier tipo de cámara. El plazo de entrega de los trailers comienza el 15 de Septiembre y terminará el 31 de Diciembre. El premio 30.000 euros para realizar un cortometraje. Una sorprendente iniciativa en la pensamos participar y a la que ya se han sumado directores de prestigo como el propio Balagueró, Isabel Coixet, Juan Antonio Bayona o José Corbacho.

He has cast Diane Kruger, Christopher Walz and Paul Rust. Kruger has been lined up to play Bridget Von Hammersmark, who is prominent in sabotaging the Nazis.

Production begins in Germany in October of this year.

Quentin Tarantino's newest project, Inglorious Bastards, is slated to come out in probably late 2009.  This, like the poster indicates above, will be a loose remake of the 1977 film that shares the same name and basic plot.  According to The Hollywood Reporter, "Two story lines... converge: One follows a group of prisoners-turned-soldiers whose mission is to take down a group of Nazis, and the other follows a young Jewish woman who seeks to avenge the death of her parents by this Nazi group.

The original itself was a reinterpretation of The Dirty Dozen, only in Italian, and cut to feature differences between it and its inspiration.  Tarantino has repeatedly said that this movie is one of his favorite "cult-classics", and has been writing and reworking the script for the last eight or nine years.  His version, of course, will be more of a reinvention on a basic premise than anything else.

With the casting of Brad Pitt, Mike Myers, and the script reviews that I have read regarding this movie, it is sure to be a guaranteed hit.  With the way in which Tarantino writes and directs his films, I'm not really sure how it could fail.  Looking back on his previous efforts,(films that were written and directed, not just produced), Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill 1 and 2** are all new classics in their own right.  Each of these films mixed elements that had not been done before and essentially created new genres.  From what I understand, Inglorious Bastards will probably create its own place within the genre classification as well.  I have read that it will mix War, Revenge, and Racism with a Spaghetti-Western type feel.

I have the original on the way from Netflix and am looking forward to reviewing it.  I also am looking forward to Tarantino's incarnation.  I'm sure that like his others, it won't disappoint.

**I elected not to use Death Proof for a couple reasons.  1, it was made as a half feature with Planet Terror, as an homage to earlier Grindhouse films.  2) The biggest reason=I haven't seen it yet. I can't say something is a new classic if I haven't see it.

Wow.  You know Hollywood is like a box of chocolates you never...well anyway.  I got up this morning and read there was a union that only Tarantino could produce.  I love Tarantino in almost every way and this is one of those big qualities he brings to film.  Casting.  Good casting.

No......insanely awesome and unique casting that audiences have never imagined!  Samual L. Jackson,Travolta, Eli Roth, Amanda Plummer, Mickey Rourke, David Carradine, Sonny Chiba, Harvey Keitel, Pam Grier, Michael Keaton, Deniro, Buscemi, Bruce Willis, Uma...etc...etc....  But it's not who he casts neccesarily, it's what part he casts them to play.

Tarantino has an ability to take a stale actor who for years has done the same typecast role or nothing at all and give them a role that breathes life into their spirit as an artist and pair them with other actors in a union that doesn't make sense.  Consequently it may also breath life into a dead horse career as it did for Travolta - who unfortunatley used his good fortune to slip back into his coma of hollywood mediocrity.

So, it was a bit shocking but maybe not surprising when I read that Tarantino has cast Mike Myers in his new WWII movie, "Inglorious Bastards."

Myers will be playing British General Ed Fenech, a military genius who helps devise a plan to take out a number of Nazi leaders. He'll join an already intriguing cast that includes Brad Pitt, Eli Roth (the "Hostel" director), B.J. Novak (the latest breakout star of "The Office") and another Tarantino comeback candidate, Nastassja Kinski ("Cat People").

Mike Myers was great in both Wayne's World films, So I Married an Axe Murderer, and he was the only thing good about the film 54.  Though that was several years ago and Myers needs a little film love now because his last film, "The Love Guru" did poorly at the box office and it's starting to feel like Myers is a one trick pony with Austin Powers.  Don't get me wrong, I love Austin Powers...I'm just not sure it's the only thing I want to love about Mike Myers.  There's way more to this man than the world is seeing and perhaps he just needed a different direction or director to take him there.  Tarantino is the way to go - that man could film a rock and make it interesting.

Well done Mike.  I look forward to "Inglorious Bastards."

El actor Michael Fassbender, también conocido como el Stelios de 300, es la cuarta incorporación al filme bélico Inglorious Bastards que dirige el inefable Quentin Tarantino.

Fassbender sustituye en el papel de un teniente británico a Simon Pegg, primera opción de Tarantino pero que debido a problemas de agenda desestimó la oferta.

Antes que Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Eli Roth y Mike Myers ya formaban parte del reparto. Ahora el obhjetivo es cerrar de una vez por todas las incorporaciones de Nastassja Kinski, David Krumholtz y B.J. Novak.

There are two reasons that I decided Tarantino indeed sucks today. First, I learned that David Krumholz (the genius on "Numbers", which I don't watch) will not be in "Inglorious Bastards". That...completely...sucks.

The main reason? Tarantino has cast the movie equivalent of the Anti-Christ in "Inglorious Bastards". This "actor" will no doubt drag this otherwise impressive ensemble cast (Brad Pitt, Simon Pegg, B.J. Novak) into the depths of over-the-top, slapstick ignorance. It's bad enough he put his buddy Eli Roth (the horror director) in the flick. Who, dare you ask is this actor? Why...it's none other than master thespian Mike F'ing Myers.

Lars von Trier was part of the Dogme 95 collective, a style of avant-garde film-making in which the goal is "to purify filmmaking by refusing expensive and spectacular special effects, postproduction modifications and other gimmicks." The goal behind the once vibrant Dogme 95 collective was to focus on the story and the actors' performances, a seemingly essential though often overlooked aspect of most modern horror films. The torture porn sub-genre is an ideal example of this, eschewing any semblance of plot and storytelling for graphic images of torture and obscene violence. Though most of the Dogme 95 Manifesto can be ignored and a great horror film still be produced, it's the underlying goal of the collective that matters, and I can only hope that von Trier keeps this in mind when making his film.

Now to the meat of the article. Dr. Kim Paffenroth (of Gospel of the Living Dead and my new personal hero) sums up my thoughts on torture porn better than I ever could by stating, "that even if staged in the bloodiest way possible, the play's (King Lear) effect would not rely on the scene; instead, the scene's bloodiness would be justified by the overall power of the play." All the violence, gore, and extreme sadism should be used not as the driving force of the film, but merely secondary to the plot yet still relevant. He cites other examples of uber-violent literature, such as Oedipus Rex, where the titular character, upon discovering that he killed his father and diddled his mother, gouges his own eyes out in graphic detail. To provide a more modern example, the French horror film Frontier(s), written and directed by Xavier Gans, can at first glance be included under the umbrella of torture porn, though it is distinct from these films in a number of ways. While incredibly violent and depicting graphic scenes of torture, its employment is relatively sparse when compared to its contemporaries, and instead focuses more on not only the struggle for survival by the female protagonist, but also the motives behind the twisted family holding her captive.

Eli Roth has tried to defend the excessive sadism of his films by attempting to draw parallels between their content and current events (Roth himself drew parallels between his own Hostel and the atrocities committed at Abu Ghraib). Attempting any sort of exegetical analysis of a woman having her eyeball drilled out by a hick American businessman seems like a bit of a stretch, Mr. Roth. I suppose if one tried really, really hard, they could form some sort of a connection between the psychological aspects of his film's antagonists to the perpetrators of the events that occurred at Abu Ghraib, but it would be tenuous and open to severe interpretation.

Don Kaye of MSN Movies wrote a piece on torture porn (and actually references Ils, a film I feel doesn't get the recognition it deserves), that apparently got under the skin of Eli Roth, who composed a rebuttal to Kaye which can be found here. He cites several examples of critics who praised Hostel II for it's supposed anti-violence message, though I don't see how graphic depictions of violence and torture, especially when it's the driving force behind the movie, can be given a positive spin. In the end, however so much can be said regarding torture porn, but unfortunately for Eli Roth and others (Hostel helped to coin the term "torture porn," so he often receives the brunt of the attacks) the negative usually outweighs the positive.

Reginald Williams at Blog Critics Magazine wrote a small piece on how "torture porn" is a misnomer, but unfortunately failed to do any real research to substantiate his incredibly narrow-minded claims. Breaking the term down into its two components, he of course agrees with the employment of the word torture, but balks at the liberal use of the word porn. The basis of his argument is that since there is no sexual stimulation or penetration in these horror films, then how could the term "porn" apply? Here's where his research fails him. Though the etymology of the word has its roots in the sex business (from the Greek πορνογραφία), it has since evolved to encompass anything that might be considered obscene and containing no artistic merit, something that is obviously lost on Mr. Williams. Just as the sex and the potential for arousal gets people to view the porn we all know and love, it is the torture, violence and all manner of grotesqueries that entice people to watch the film, if only for that slight possibility of being frightened or disgusted. I mean, it certainly isn't the supposed feminist undertones Eli Roth claims inhabit his films, though I guess I can see how a woman hanging nude over a bath tub and sliced apart by a scythe-wielding Elizabeth Bathory rip-off can be treated as a form of female empowerment.

Taking all of this into account, what ramifications do the popularity of these films have on the industry? Does it debase the genre as a whole, or does it simply serve to illuminate how fucked up people are in their desire and willingness to see pointless depictions of violence and torture? I'm not going to lie. I enjoyed Saw when it came out, just as I enjoyed Hostel when it came out. But over the past few years my taste in horror movies has matured, and looking back I can only compare them to a Michael Bay movie: good for two hours of escaping reality, but afterwards they're forgotten and you go on with your life.

I watched both Hostel (2005) and Hostel: Part II (2007) back-to-back, this weekend.  The first movie begins with three friends, Paxton (Jay Hernandez), Josh (Derek Richardson) and Oli (Eythor Gudjonsson) heading out to a hostel in Bratislava, Slovakia, in search of beautiful women who will "do anything" with an American tourist.  Once there, things take a turn for the worse when one-by-one, they disappear — we realise later that they've been abducted by an underground "Elite Hunting" club, who kidnap tourists and offer them up to rich people to torture and kill in any way they see fit!  The sequel is more-or-less a retread of the first film, except this time we have three female lead characters — Beth (Lauren German), Whitney (Bijou Phillips) and Lorna (Heather Matarazzo) who go to the Slovak hostel, and we get to see more of what happens "behind-the-scenes" at Elite Hunting.  Both films also have the appearance of the "Bubblegum Gang", a group of little kids who are very, very dangerous.

Both movies come from writer-director Eli Roth and are executive produced by Quentin Tarantino.  The movies became well-known due to their extremely violent and bloody content — these two, along with the Saw movies are commonly referred to under the "torture porn" genre.  Of course, both are well-done movies and if you like this sort of thing, they're highly recommended!  I thought the Saw movies were a notch better than this series, though.

I did a drawing today based on Hostel and Hostel: Part II.  It was done with ballpoint pen and I added some colour to it on computer.  The drawing features Rick Hoffman as the "American Client" from Part 1, the Bubblegum Gang leader from both movies, Lauren German as Beth from Part 2 and Jay Hernandez as Paxton from Part 1.  You can click on the images to see larger versions (warning: black and white image large version contains profanity).

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Hollywood has been all poopy-pants over the announcement that Quentin Tarantino plans to remake the ultra-violent film Inglorious Bastards. For weeks, casting rumors have swirled like bong hits: each one longer and weirder than the preceeding. Allow me to explain:

Hit 1: Brad Pitt, starring. Delicious, noxious fumes invade your lungs and brain, excite you, entice you, demand more.

Hit 2: Simon Pegg, arty, cool. You're feeling it, calming, but still craving.

Hit 3: B.J. Novak, random. You're stoned now, for sure, and want to discuss the importance of Dawson's Creek as it reflected your life and how the planetary alignments affected you during high school. (What?)

Hit 4: Nastassja Kinski, who? You can't even remember your name anymore.

And, finally, Hit 5: Eli Roth. This hit hurts. You want to throw up now. You should have stopped before. You over-indulged and now you're paying for it.

Really, QT, Eli Roth? Who wants to see that douchebag act? He better die first, and spectacularly.

Recently I wrote the news the Eli Roth is confirmed since then more news has risen.

Here we go.

BJ Novak, yes from the office, has been confirmed as a jewish soldier.

Brad Pitt has signed on to play Aldo the Apache. (Good Choice)

Leonardo Dicaprio is out. A bitter sweet ending. Bitter because ol' leo has certainly come into his own in recent years, sweet because Tarantino wishes to cast a legitimate German for the role which will be much better.

IN TALKS:

Nastassja Kinski is in talks to play the role of the German Actress in the film.

Simon Pegg, oh yes, is in talks to play a British Lieutenant. Are you kidding me? I dig this guy, I love all his movies, and my previous posts will solidify that statement. Does he belong here? I don't know. He did have a small role in Band of Brothers, but hardly something to write home about.

MORE UPDATES AS THEY SURFACE

Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards has found its first cast member and, oddly, it's a director. Eli Roth (Hostel) is in talks to play Sgt. Donnie Donowitz, described as a "baseball bat-swinging Nazi hunter". Roth has already acted for Tarantino, having played a small role in Death Proof, his half of Grindhouse.

Variety reports that Tim Roth was in talks to join the cast, but scheduling difficulties prevented it. Interestingly, their article also says that much of the film's dialogue will be in either French or German, with subtitles, although Pitt will speak in English.Tarantino is set to begin shooting in Germany on October 13 and is still planning to have the film ready for next year's Cannes Film Festival. That sounds like an impossibly tight deadline to us, but, by God, he's got to try.

I just have this feeling that these people are going to go - when they're dead - and St Peter's going to say:

"And what did you do with your life?"

"Well I looked at things other people did and I said "That doesn't really work. It works on maybe two levels but not satisfactorily on either, and to me it wasn't as good as the thing you did before."

"I'm sorry, that's what - I gave you two legs and two arms and a soul and you did that for all your life, you told people what was wrong with the stuff they were doing?"

And you know, I think it's just a terrible waste of a life.

(From an old Room 101, if you're interested - and interesting, if a little opinionated, is something Stephen Fry has never failed to be.  I will watch anything he's had a hand in; mancrush anyone?  More like a mindcrush...)

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Predictably enough: I fear, Mr Fry, that we disagree.

Simply put, the act of criticism isn't necessarily negative.  There are good reviews as well as bad ones, although I'll make no promises as far as which of the two turn more heads.  To criticise is simply to look at something as objectively as you're able and offer an educated opinion on its worth.  In life, there's criticism at every turn.  It mightn't always be pleasant, or indeed valuable in any real sense, but if Stephen Fry hates critics, he has to hate teachers too, and parents.  But of course he doesn't.  There's a posh latin name for what I'm doing here, but I'm going to resist temptation for once.

In all seriousness, though, unless something is so awful it leaves me outright offended or appalled, I'll tend not to review it.  Most of the reviews I've had published have been pretty positive - often there'll be mention of a token few problems, but that's the game critics play, and you can hardly change it from the outside.  And even if you could, I don't know that I would.  I appreciate that even the worst films - the trashiest novels and the most derivitave music - I appreciate that however shitty something might end up being, someone out there created it, and very probably took pride in it; loved it a little, even.  And everything about art is subjective.  I might not have enjoyed Brutal Massacre: A Comedy, but it's plainly a labour of love, a poem (however misguided) to the horror subculture, and there are people out there, I'm sure, who will enjoy it.  I wouldn't want to dissuade those people from starting something that might well give them pleasure.  There's a line somewhere that I don't feel I've any greater right to cross than anyone else.  If it's for you, fair enough.  I'm having more trouble than usual at the moment with an article about Tana French's sophomore novel - I loved In The Woods despite myself, but The Likeness is outright ridiculous at times, cheap and contrarian.  And yet, most readers are enjoying it.  I know what the average Amazon rating is, and in my mind, let me say this outright: it's wrong.  But do I want to insult all the people that have obviously enjoyed it?  Not in the slightest.

The exceptions are your Hostel Part 2s, your Prince Caspians and so on.  When I feel I've been condescended to, or treated like lowest-common-denominator trash, you're damn right I'm going to express my opinion about it, scathing or otherwise.  When you build something not to be art or even entertainment, but very deliberately to be nothing more or less than successful, I start feeling a little off-colour.  When there's nothing redemptive at all in your book or your movie, when there's nothing besides calculated crowd-pleasing, I'll put aside my usual respectfulness and tear your eyesockets clean out.  Critically speaking.

Yes, Eli Roth, I mean you.  And that fucker what thinks Shrek makes him by any stretch a filmmaker - you too.  Keep your eyesockets close, gentlemen.

/rant

Aprés Eli Roth( hostel 1 et 2)qui va interpréter le Sergent Donnie Donowitz, un chasseur de nazis dont l'arme principale serait une batte de baseball ^^,Brad Pitt rejoindra la prochaine production de Quentin Tarantino ,Inglorious Bastard!

L'histoire du trip film ce situe pendant la seconde guerre mondial où une bande de criminels de guerre américains, tente de s'échapper vers la Suisse en évitant les Alliés et les nazie.

Outre brad Pitt qui etait l'une des plus grosse rumeur du casting, les autres "rumeurs" sont léonardo dicaprio, vincent cassel et romain duris.

Comme le début du tournage est prévue en france et allemagne pour le mois d'octobre on peut s'attendre à ce que d'autre noms (surprise?) nous soit devoiller d'ici ces derniére semaines.

There has been quite a bit of news in the last couple days surrounding Quentin Tarantino's potential "masterpiece," the super-mega-anticipated "Inglorious Bastards." Today, Variety reports that Brad Pitt, whose name has attached to the rumors about the flick for quite some time, has finally made it official that he will star as Aldo Raine in the World War II epic.

I think Pitt is great for the part, a "Tennessee hillbilly who assembles a team of eight Jewish-American soldiers." He's always been a great character actor, from "Snatch" to "Fight Club" to the upcoming "Curios Case of Benjamin Button," so there's no doubt in my mind that Pitt will portray said hillbilly perfectly.

Leo DiCaprio, another big name that was rumored to star, seems to have been dropped for consideration, which kind of disappoints me. I think DiCaprio is another one of Hollywood's truly great actors right now, and it would have been incredible to see he and Pitt share screen time. Whether as friends or enemies (I have yet to read the script, so I'm not sure whether Pitt and DiCaprio's supposed characters worked together of not), I'm sure their confrontations and such would be very dynamic.

Here's the most surprising news surrounding "Bastards," though — Tarantino's friend and expert in all things horror, Eli Roth, has been brought up as an actor in the movie. What? That really doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Every time Tarantino has mentioned the project for the last decade (or however long it's actually been since he started talking up "Bastards"), he has stirred up the crazy, only half-believable casting choices, putting together a dream cast that any director would kill to be a part of. Then when movie actually becomes a reality (primary shooting begins Oct. 13), he goes and casts a director in the movie? Not some Oscar-nominated movie star, like he's been talking about forever? It seems like such an odd change of plans to me.

Oh well. With or without Roth, this movie is going to kick some serious ass.

This is like... the second letter I've written you.  It's not good when I write you letters, is it?

THEN LET'S STOP DOING SILLY THINGS, SHALL WE?   Casting Eli Roth in Inglorious Bastards?   Really?

Have you lost your ever-loving mind?

Don't get me wrong.   I know you and Eli are all buddy-buddy.   You probably watch movies together and go bar-hopping and whatever it is that you do, but he is not an actor. Presumably, you've seen him act since he was in one of your own movies.   Dear God, QT, just look at the man.   I like Roth's movies when he's behind the camera, not in front of it.   And I'm assuming the role you're putting him in is not a pervy frat-boy role, is it?

No disrespect to Roth.   I thought Cabin Fever was funny and a good horror film, and I liked both the Hostel films.   I thought his trailer for Thanksgiving was delightfully campy.   But every time I see him, I just have flashbacks to:  "Yeah, he's a Professor!   A professor of being a dog!"

Bless his heart, I just don't think Eli Roth was cut out to be an actor.   No harm, no foul, except for him being in this movie.

You need to hire someone to tell you "no", Quentin.  You need to hire a "no person", who will tell you when you're out of your damn gourd and you sound like you've been inhaling paint fumes because your thinking is schizoid.   Is it fun to go shoot a movie with your friend for a few months in Europe?  Sure!   Will that make your movie good!?    IS YOUR FRIEND ELI ROTH?  Just say NO.

Your no person, incidentally, should be equipped with one of those enormous and squishy inflatable plastic mallets - the kind with the squeaky toy inside - so that when you "leak information" - like "I want to cast Leonardo DiCaprio as a German SS dude" - said no person can administer a swing to your head like Mickey Mantle.  It won't hurt you, but it will keep your wits about you and you'll even get the added bonus of sound effects.

It's not hard, QT.

For God's sake, just get on with it.

No love (at the moment),

Caitlin

It's terrible news two-fold. One we knew about this, or at least the fact that QT was hoping to cast Roth and eluded to it in an earlier post and of course we held our tongues. Secondly, Roth can't act and has only ever had a few small roles (a small part in Taratino's half of "Grinhouse") and the Donowitz character does need some acting skills, not a lot, but why would you entrust someone who's not a regular actor?

Cause Tarantino likes casting his friends ugh. Fuck it, might as well spill what else we have. Apparently QT wants to cast actor Michael Bacall as one of the Basterd soliders as well. Bacall also had a small part acting alongside Roth in Tarantino's "Death Proof," and is also a writer who's penning "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World."

The BEST line of the Variety story:

"Tarantino had planned to meet with Leonardo DiCaprio for the role of SS Col. Hans Landa, only to decide that the role should be played by a German actor."

Yes, we love it! Tarantino is expected to formalize the rest of the cast shortly. Look for announcements soon, including Brad Pitt as Lt. Aldo Raine.

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I'm calling BS on Britney getting the part though, but maybe, cuz who knows what is true these days. . .  here

Also, Fangoria talks a little about it here, and says that Eli Roth (Hostel) will appear in Tarantino's WWII movie Inglorious Bastards.  Cool title.

Well, just today some interesting news popped up. Donny Donowitz, the bear jew who smashes in the heads of Nazi soldiers with his signed baseball bat, has been cast.

Who is it?

Eli Roth. Yes it's true, the horror director behind Hostel, Cabin Fever (loved this movie), and Hostel Part II will play the Nazi head basher. Interesting choice.

Mr. Roth has plenty of personality, and when he talks it's hard not to listen, but an important role in a huge movie may be more than this Gore Guru can handle. I mean he's shown he can act, a role in Death Proof, AND he got shot while taking a shit in the movie Southland Tales. BUT can he succesfully convince the audience that he is badass enough to take a bat behind enemy lines and crack some skulls? We'll see. I could go either way.

Quentin Tarantino finally started casting and he should complete the casting pretty quickly before shooting begins. Tarantino confirmed Eli Roth to play the character Sgt. Donnie Donowitz for "Inglorious Bastards". The character is described as a baseball swinging Nazi hunter. Tarantino worked with Roth a few times before. He worked with Roth for "Death Proof" and worked for the horror film "Hostel" which Eli Roth directed and Tarantino was the executive producer.

Brad Pitt is currently in talks and Tarantino soon plans to meet with Leonardo Dicaprio to star in the film as welll.

Variety Reports:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117990111.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

How much do you want to bet that Tarantino will also get some of his regulars in the film too like Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Michael Madsen, maybe even David Carridine may have a small role. Maybe Uma Thurman too.

But I hope Sly Stallone has a role in this flick as well. That be sweet to see Sly co star along with Pitt and Dicaprio.

Kev