Inglourious Basterds

[MyNameCriterionForum]

Steve Buscemi = Hitler

[klee13]

They could bring Lawrence Tierney back from the dead to play Churchill.

[domino harvey]

Also. I assume the role Sandler wasn't available for is the one that went out to Eli Roth. Anybody confirm or deny?

Confirmed in, yes, the same article I linked

[lacritfan]

As long as it doesn't end up like The Thin Red Line teaser - Sean Penn! John Travolta! George Clooney! John Cusack! - and then you go and it ends up being mostly Nick Nolte and Elias Koteas. Still loved the movie BTW, just sayin'.

[Anhedionisiac]

As long as it doesn't end up like The Thin Red Line teaser - Sean Penn! John Travolta! George Clooney! John Cusack! - and then you go and it ends up being mostly Nick Nolte and Elias Koteas. Still loved the movie but BTW, just sayin'.

If it hadn't been mostly about Koteas, I'd have been very very sad.

Apologies, Domino.

[dr. calamari]

They could bring Lawrence Tierney back from the dead to play Churchill.

Or get Bob Hoskins or Albert Finney, or maybe Eddie Izzard. I'd love to see his version of Churchill!

[pianocrash]

Simon Pegg is out.

[Toshiro De Niro]

i vote for Gary Oldman for Hitler

[moviscop]

Simon Pegg is out.

Can't say I will be losing sleep over it...

[Mr Sausage]

Rules.

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[HerrSchreck]

Whole memberships could fall by the wayside if enforced!

[Grand Illusion]

Rules.

Avoid "empty" posts. This is also known as "thread-padding." Whether it's to bump up post counts or simply a naive attempt at casual conversation, some people just love to make posts that consist of nothing more than phrases such as "That's too bad!" or "I can't wait!" or "That's awesome!" or "That's so cool!" and so on and so on. This is to be avoided. If you don't have anything to say, don't say it. Along the same lines...

That's too bad.

Alternative on-topic version: That's too fucking bad, motherfucker.

[pianocrash]

I kind of saw Pegg's initial inclusion as a step-up, or at least a step into the comfort zone for us viewers, since the casting is already schizophrenic enough as it is. Why Tolentino doesn't just hire a cast of total non-stars at this point is sad enough (it could be like Return of the Living Dead!), or at least a bonanza of character actors, or Sherman Hemsley for the lead. In the time it's taken for these casting decisions to filter out to us, the whole board could have completed primary shooting of our version of his script, and then I would stop torturing myself thinking about how good or bad Big T's final result will be when I'm dead & in the ground by 2011.

[domino harvey]

Kinski's out, Diane Kruger's in

[Narshty]

Kinski's out, Diane Kruger's in

Good grief - according to that article, Samm Levine from Freaks and Geeks is in the cast. When was that reported?

[Finch]

The one casting decision that genuinely worries me is Eli Roth - as a director, the man comes across as so self-absorbed and buying into his own hype (Cahiers de Cinema allegedly praising Hostel didn't help) that I dread to think what he'll be like as an actor. The greatest surprise to me so far has been Mike Myers who must be thanking the heavens for getting this part after churning out all this dreck in recent years.

[Narshty]

Just when I thought I couldn't find Eli Roth any more obnoxious and self-regarding, I made the mistake of watching his intro to Exorcist II: The Heretic on the Trailers from Hell website.

[AWA]

Two questions for the mods: why has this discussion of Inglorious Bastards not been moved to it's own thread and why is Tarantino's filmmaker thread in the New Films section and not the Filmmakers (and for that matter, other filmmakers like PT Anderson?)?

[Jeff]

Two questions for the mods: why has this discussion of Inglorious Bastards not been moved to it's own thread

Because it's still just talk at this point. Until the cameras roll, nothing is certain (especially given Pitt's recent track record). If it actually starts filming in October as planned, all relevant posts will be split into an appropriate thread.

why is Tarantino's filmmaker thread in the New Films section and not the Filmmakers (and for that matter, other filmmakers like PT Anderson?)?

At some point it was decided that the "Filmmakers" subforum would only house new threads beginning with the reference list post.

[Matt]

And because we're all lazy.

[AWA]

Inglorious Bastards is definitely a go with signed cast members. This needs it's own thread. I would like to be able to read updates on this from others here - I've missed them because I see the Tarantino thread and just think someone is reporting "he did a speech" or "he had dinner with an actor" or "his pants fell down in public" or something. But Inglorious Bastards is being made, it's a definite go and films further away from production have their own thread so this all should be moved to clean things up here.

[domino harvey]

It's not "a go" until filming begins. Bigger titles than this have stalled at this stage of the game

[AWA]

At this point, I think this is getting made now - shooting officially starts in October. This will happen.

Brad Pitt wouldn't be putting this on his schedule if this was just going to fall through Tarantino's peace pipe.

[Jeff]

Ask Kevin MacDonald and Universal about Pitt's reliability. He dropped out of State of Play (presumably in violation of his contract) two weeks after it was supposed to start shooting. It caused them to lose Ed Norton and several million dollars too.

[Antoine Doinel]

Also give Darren Aronofsky and the Australian film industry a call as well, as Brad Pitt pulled out mere days before shooting was begin causing the entire picture to be shelved.