Mandatory Inglorious Bastards Update

Okay, since it got a lot of press in the trades today, here’s a quick recap of what’s new for Tarantino’s upcoming feature, courtesy of Variety and Hollywood Reporter:

As you’ve heard, Brad Pitt’s officially on now, and he’s playing a soldier from Tennessee who’s the leader of the film’s gang of Jewish American soldiers.   Nastassja Kinski (Paris, Texas) is in talks to play a German movie star in the film, BJ Novak (The Office) is still in talks to play one of Pitt’s soldiers alongside Eli Roth who’s playing Sgt. Donnie Donowitz, and Simon Pegg is in talks to be a British Lieutenant in the film.   Tim Roth is officially out now in regards to a major role, thanks to his obligations to the upcoming work on the TV Series “Lie To Me“.   Lawrence Bender is producing despite the old bad blood between him and Tarantino, and he’s currently scouting locations in Berlin.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Pitt’s role in the film is one of Tarantino’s typically loquacious hardass characters, like if Jules Winnfield from Pulp Fiction was really into killing Nazis.   However, Variety is saying a lot of the film’s dialogue is going to be in French and German with subtitles, so that ought to temper some of the Tarantino action geeks’ adulations with a little forced on-screen reading.

So there, if you weren’t caught up before you are now.   Cool?   Cool.