Quentin Tarantino's 'INGLORIUS BASTARDS'

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Basterds Begins Filming In Germany

VFXWorld
Monday October 20, 2008

Quentin Tarantino's INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS began principal photography last week on location in Germany. The ensemble cast of INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS includes Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Melanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Bruhl, Eli Roth, Samm Levine, B.J. Novak, Til Schweiger, Gedeon Burkhard, Paul Rust, Michael Bacall, Omar Doom, Sylvester Groth, Julie Dreyfus, Jacky Ido, August Diehl, Martin Wuttke, Richard Sammel, Christian Berkel, Sonke Mohring, Michael Fassbender, Mike Myers, Rod Taylor, Denis Menochet and Cloris Leachman.

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS reunites Tarantino with Academy Award-nominated editor Sally Menke, Academy Award-winning director of photography Bob Richardson, and production designer David Wasco. Joining Tarantino for the first time is Academy Award-nominated costume designer Anna Sheppard.

Lawrence Bender is producing INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS. Erica Steinberg and Lloyd Phillips, and Bob and Harvey Weinstein are the film's exec producers. The co-producers are Charlie Woebcken, Christoph Fisser and Henning Molfenter. Pilar Savone is the associate producer.

The Weinstein Company and Universal Pictures, through its newly formed International Studio, are co-financing and co-presenting the film with TWC handling domestic distribution and Universal handling international distribution. The two companies are partners on the project.

Zehnte Babelsberg Film, a subsidiary of Studio Babelsberg AG, is producing INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS. The film will shoot at Studio Babelsberg as well as in Berlin, Saxony and Paris.

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS begins in German-occupied France, where Shosanna Dreyfus (Melanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema.

Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution. Known to their enemy as "The Basterds," Raine's squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich. Fates converge under a cinema marquee, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own...

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS will be released worldwide in 2009.

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Posted: Fri., Nov. 14, 2008, 3:04pm PT

Morricone accepts 'Inglorious' offer

Tarantino asks composer to score 'Bastards'

By Nick Vivarelli
Variety

Will Ennio Morricone score "Bastards"?

The Italian composer says he has accepted Quentin Tarantino's offer to write the music for "Inglorious Bastards" -- but may not be able to cover all the needed material, given the pic's time constraints.

"Tarantino will finish shooting the film in February and has to deliver it by the end of April in time for Cannes," says the famously meticulous maestro from his Rome home. "That doesn't leave me enough time to do the music. Either I start working on it before he stops shooting -- after we discuss it together -- or I just can't do it."

Tarantino, who has been in Germany shooting the WWII pic toplining Brad Pitt as a Tennessee hillbilly who takes on the Nazis, is known to be a massive Morricone fan.

But while he has used several Morricone Spaghetti Western themes for "Kill Bill" and "Death Proof" having the composer do all of the music for "Bastards" would mark his first full original score on a Tarantino film.

Still, says Morricone, "I might end up just writing a couple of tracks."

Considering Morricone refused to contribute even a few minutes of original music for "Pulp Fiction," the composer has certainly changed his tune.

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I can't wait for this film. It's been awhile since I have excited for a film...especially during an era where generic comedies, ridiculous action films, and vampire films made for (insert your own insult) are king. Oh film industry, where is your soul?!

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Posted: Thurs., Jan. 1, 2009, 2:33pm PT

TWC sets date for 'Basterds'

Tarantino's WWII epic to bow on Aug. 21

By Tatiana Siegel
Variety

The Weinstein Co. and Universal Pictures have set a date for Quentin Tarantino's World War II epic "Inglourious Basterds."

The Brad Pitt starrer will open domestically on Aug. 21, with TWC handling distribution Stateside.

Universal, which is handling international distribution, will announce overseas release dates soon.

TWC and Universal are co-financing and co-presenting the film, which also stars Eli Roth, BJ Novak and Mike Myers.

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