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Bastard out of Tennessee.

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"Much of the pic's dialogue is in French or German, and subtitles will be used, though Pitt will speak English in his role as a Tennessee hillbilly who assembles a team of eight Jewish-American soldiers to take on the Nazis." Brad Pitt officially signs up for QT's forthcoming WWII epic, Inglorious Bastards. Also in negotiations to join the project at the moment: Nastassja Kinski, Simon Pegg, David Krumholtz, and B.J. Novak.

Hmm...I dunno. I haven't read the script, which I heard was floating around, and probably won't before I see the movie. I'd like to think that this'll be a return to the form of Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Jackie Brown for Tarantino. But the Kill Bills and Death Proof were so loopy, bloated, and self-indulgent that I fear QT has entered George Lucas territory, meaning that he's surrounded by sycophantic yes-men and has sadly disappeared up his own ass, never to emerge again. And casting his buddy, torture-porn director Eli Roth, first only increases my wariness that this'll be yet another self-referential bric-a-brac homage to exploitation flicks of the past. Still, hope springs eternal.

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sb said:

Novak and Roth are a good start -- just need to throw in John Krasinski and Joe Rogan and it will be a Tarantino-via-Newton-South-High-School extravaganza. Can't miss!

Seth said:

Just to be clear, you're saying Pulp Fiction isn't a "bric-a-brac homage to exploitation flicks of the past"? ;-)

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