Tarantino Will Finally Make 'Inglorious Bastards' - in Time for Cannes 2009?
Filed under: Cannes, RumorMonger, Scripts, Quentin Tarantino, War
Quentin Tarantino's been talking up his WWII drama Inglorious Bastards for God knows how long. Last we heard he was buried in the script, with nothing concrete planned in the immediate future. Now, in a Cannes interview (via JoBlo), Tarantino has pronounced that he's finished a draft of the script (that was fast) and "if all goes well, I will be here, in Cannes, in 2009 with Inglorious Bastards." Now, the only director I know who could take a largely uncast World War II movie from first draft to Cannes-ready cut in the span of 12 months is Steven Soderbergh, and he's busy figuring out what to do with Che. His prediction that he'll have Inglorious Bastards in next year's Cannes was, it seems to me, either hubris, excitement-of-the-moment hyperbole, or a straight-up lie. Still, the fact that he seems to be committed to doing this project -- or any project -- next is exciting in itself. I watched the standalone cut of Death Proof for the first time last week, and it's an astonishing piece of filmmaking. I think his work this century -- particularly Death Proof and Kill Bill Vol. 2 -- has been even more exciting than his legendary 90s stuff.
Inglorious Bastards will be about a group of Allied soldiers who volunteer for a suicide mission as a reprieve from execution for various misdeeds. Tarantino took the title from this 1978 Enzo Castellari film, though he doesn't intend it as a remake.
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5-27-2008 @ 11:01AM
Ian said...
"Inglorious Bastards will be about a group of Allied soldiers who volunteer for a suicide mission as a reprieve from execution for various misdeeds."
Um, wasn't that The Dirty Dozen?
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5-27-2008 @ 11:32AM
Petro1734 said...
Sweet !
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5-27-2008 @ 12:04PM
The Pepto Pimp said...
Tarantino is like a National Treasure movie: At this point, he's become a caricature of himself.
I'm not sure I agree with your statement about "his work this century," but he's certainly still making very good films.
Still, off the set he need to learn to STFU!
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5-27-2008 @ 12:28PM
Mafoo said...
Well, he has been working on the script for almost a decade, so it's no surprise that he is now ready to greenlight it on through as fast as he can. Although, a year? Not likely.
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5-27-2008 @ 2:13PM
RP said...
"I watched the standalone cut of Death Proof for the first time last week, and it's an astonishing piece of filmmaking. "
Oh, come on now.
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5-27-2008 @ 2:22PM
Eugene Novikov said...
Come on what? If nothing else (and I think it's plenty else), the chase scene finale is virtuoso technical work -- for my money the most purely exciting half hour of last year.
5-27-2008 @ 2:27PM
RP said...
It's just flagrant hyperbole.
If you had said what you have said in this reply, there'd be no problem.
5-27-2008 @ 2:26PM
mcafee_matthew said...
Well for what it's worth...I agree with you. Death Proof was an excellent stand alone film...more so than Planet Terror in my opinion. Whether or not Inglorious Bastards will be up to snuff...I hope so...if anyone could make an original film with tidbits and plots from other films, it's QT. So I say let's have remake of The Dirty Dozen...why not? The original will always be there.
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5-27-2008 @ 4:10PM
NP said...
Death Proof is a great film, and definitely only as the extended, stand-alone cut. Not the chopped version they showed on the double bill. I look forward to Inglorious Bastards. Yes, it's clearly his Dirty Dozen, but I have to agree with mcafee_matthew's statement: "if anyone could make an original film with tidbits and plots from other films, it's QT."
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5-29-2008 @ 7:14AM
Joel M. said...
Guys, the Dirty Dozen is the most commercial of a particular sub-genre of WWII movies. I seriously doubt someone of QT's knowledge would be so shallow as to only steal from it.
Death Proof is pretty good the second viewing. It doesn't work the first time, because QT sells the thing as a slasher flick, and the move doesn't stick to that. The second time through you have fun.
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5-29-2008 @ 2:02PM
blessingx said...
Death Proof = astonishing piece of filmmaking. Is this a joke?
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6-20-2008 @ 11:02AM
Chris said...
No actually it's not. When you factor in all the CGI used in movies today... look at ANY chase sequence in the new Indiana Jones for that matter... not a single one comes close to the chase in Death Proof...
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