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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Posted at 11:32AM on May 27th 2008 by Petro1734
3. 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!
Posted at 12:04PM on May 27th 2008 by The Pepto Pimp
4. 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.
Posted at 12:28PM on May 27th 2008 by Mafoo
5. "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.
Posted at 2:13PM on May 27th 2008 by RP
6. 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.
Posted at 2:22PM on May 27th 2008 by Eugene Novikov
7. It's just flagrant hyperbole.
If you had said what you have said in this reply, there'd be no problem.
Posted at 2:27PM on May 27th 2008 by RP
8. 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.
Posted at 2:26PM on May 27th 2008 by mcafee_matthew
9. 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."
Posted at 4:10PM on May 27th 2008 by NP
10. 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.
11. Death Proof = astonishing piece of filmmaking. Is this a joke?
Posted at 2:02PM on May 29th 2008 by blessingx
12. 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...
Posted at 11:02AM on Jun 20th 2008 by Chris
1. "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?
Posted at 11:01AM on May 27th 2008 by Ian