Casting Round-Up For Tarantino’s INGLORIOUS BASTARDS!
Remember when this project was just a mere rumour and Tarantino was talking about putting Arnie, Bruce, Sly, Chuck and all those action icons together for the first time? Then it was all about reuniting the Pulp Fiction cast alongside the Reservoir Dogs cast… How things shape up differently a good few years on, with a heavy dose of reality thrown in too eh?
As is present… Brad Pitt has signed on for the lead role of Aldo Raines. Samm Levine, the annoyingly precarious child-faced dude from the excellent TV show Freaks & Geeks, is to replace David Krumholtz when Krumholtz couldn’t free himself from his filming schedule on the TV show Numbers. B.J Novak, of TV’s The Office (US version) is still rumoured to be in the running for a role. And both Eli Roth and Mike Myers (yes, Mike Myers!) are confirmed in roles - Myers’ is said to be more of a detailed one scene cameo. Nastassja Kinski is “doing a Travolta” and rejuvenating her career with a small (”but significant”) part. Leonardo Di Caprio and Natalie Portman are STILL being talked up to fill the other key lead roles. Michael Madsen is still insistent that he has a part, and Bruce Willis is said to be eyeing a small but significant role in the film.
Doing the research to get just this small amount of hardened rumour and established fact was so exhausting that I am now retiring to a darkened room for a good few hours!
Latest “Wild & Crazy Rumour”? Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall and James Caan are going to appear in a key scene together as “top military brass” by way of a tribute to The Godfather movies! *cough* yeah right!
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9 Responses to “Casting Round-Up For Tarantino’s INGLORIOUS BASTARDS!”
Nastassja Kinski? I might check this out after all. lol.
You know, I might be in the minority here, but I really am not bothered by this. The original is fun, but it’s nothing special, and I am losing interest in QT projects. He talks them up well but….
I’m more interested in the releases of Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair and Grindhouse “as was intended” which are meant to be coming next year. But then, I’ll believe that when I see them on the shelves!
Something tells me its going to be an Inglorious Bomb at the Box Office. The story is ridiculously impossible and they can’t even get a commitment from anyone.
It’s actually the exact opposite Nobo - every one they want is tied into other obligations. You cannot knock the fact that he has acquired, so far, every 1st or 2nd person on the list he has went for!
I do not think for one second that this will bomb! Not a chance! I will go on record as saying that this will trounce, both critically and box office wise, KILL BILL.
Mike friggin Myers has signed on to be in this. Ugh, man. Bg time ugh.
Seriously, I hate that man like fat kids hate diets.
It’s a small role, so I don’t give a shit. It’s not like he’s gonna be in the movie for the majority of the run time.
Anyone who has read the script can see he’s not going to be in it long enough to create a stink. Plus, what can I say? I’m a Myers fan. THE LOVE GURU really ****in upset me because it was such a waste! An utter waste!
I read the script last weekend and I thought it was fantastic and I have very mixed feelings about Kill Bill and Death Proof. Those scripts felt rushed and written under the influence of a few too many arse-kissers, alcohol and drugs. They lacked focus and didn’t hang together too well and I think it showed on screen.
The IB script was very well put together and has a lot more depth and detail to it than ‘Basterds’ scalping Nazis, in fact that’s a sixth of the movie promised by the script. I think Myers’ casting as Hicox would work nicely, Love Guru be damned (and it should be). Pitt is perfect as Raine. But they need to cast somebody equally as heavyweight and interesting as Landa.
I don’t know, this script was proof for me that QT can still do it. I’m quietly excited.
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