Brad Pitt to become an ‘Inglorious Bastard’

Empire Magazine reports that Brad Pitt has joined Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards to “play a Tennessee hillbilly who leads a band of eight Jewish-American soldiers to take out some rough justice on the Nazis.”

And looks like Simon Pegg is in talks to join the cast as a British officer! Wow, I’m utterly giddy at the prospect of Pitt and Pegg sharing screen time. Pegg can do cheeky, but it seems weird to picture Pitt personifying that Tarantino camp and fast talking dialogue. Come to think of it though, if you look at Brad Pitt’s resume, he actually does have a formidable acting range. He can play the serious father in Babel or a dim-witted blackmailer in the upcoming dark comedy Burn After Reading. I’m sure he’ll make Tarantino’s character his own with ease.

Damn you Quentin Tarantino and your mega casting, now I simply must see this flick. I was kinda meh about the whole thing until hearing this casting news. The hype for Tarantino movies starts so ridiculously early these days. You read inane blurbs every other day on the film blogs about the script completion process, heated debates on whether Tarantino will be able to finish the movie by April 2009 etc. So basically, I didn’t want to hear anything else on Inglorious Bastards until a trailer was posted or a poster was created!

Add Pitt and Pegg, and see how I’ve changed my tune. Supposedly, we’ll see how all this works when Tarantino premieres the film at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009.

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