Inglourious Basterds is an upcoming ensemble war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. The director has repeatedly stressed that despite it being a war film, the movie will be a “spaghetti-western but with World War II iconography”. It has the largest cast of characters (with speaking roles) of any Tarantino film to date and was filmed in several locations, among them Germany and France. He plans to complete production of Inglourious Basterds in time for release at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival in May 2009. Filming began in October 2008.[4] The title (and partial premise) of the upcoming film is inspired by Italian director Enzo Castellari’s 1978 movie Inglorious Bastards. The Weinstein Company has slated August 21, 2009, as the tentative U.S. release date. In addition to spaghetti-westerns, the film also pays homage to the WWII “macaroni-combat” sub-genre (itself influenced by spaghetti-westerns) as well as films by Jean-Luc Godard.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, “two story lines converge: One follows a group of Jewish-American soldiers whose mission is to take down a group of Nazis, and the other follows a young Jewish woman who seeks to avenge the death of her parents by this Nazi group”.
The film will be divided into five chapters:
* Chapter One: Once Upon a Time in Nazi Occupied France
* Chapter Two: Inglourious Basterds
* Chapter Three: German Night in Paris (filmed in “French New Wave Black and White”)
* Chapter Four: Operation Kino
* Chapter Five: Revenge of the Giant Face
In German-occupied France, Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa. Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema.
Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution. Known to their enemy as “The Basterds,” Raine’s squad eventually joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich. Fates converge under a cinema marquee, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own.
The first trailer for the film, a teaser, premiered on Entertainment Tonight on the 10th February, and was shown in American theaters the following week attached to Friday the 13th. The trailer features excerpts of Lt. Aldo Raine talking to the rest of ‘the basterds’, informing them of the plan to kill, torture, and scalp Nazis, intercut with various other scenes from the movie. It also features the spaghetti-westernesque kickers Once Upon A Time In Nazi Occupied France and A Basterd’s Work is Never Done, a line spoken in the film.
The film will be released on August 19 in France, two days earlier than the US release.
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