Film: Inglorious Basterds
Year: 2009 (Scheduled for an August release)
Director: Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino’s 7th feature-length film, and 2009’s biggest, meanest, bloodiest, nazi-wiping epic,Inglorious Basterds, is scheduled for an August 2009 release. It is currently in post-production, and Tarantino has said that it will be ready in time for an opening at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival in May.

Although the script leaked out on the Internet late last year, very little about the film’s production and set details are available. As of now this is what we know:

• For the record, while the film’s title is inspired by Enzo Castellari’s 1978 film Inglorious Bastards, it is NOT a re-make of it. The “e” in Basterds is an artistic flourish that QT does not wish to explain.
• The film’s plot is a convergence of two story lines. One follows a group of American prisoners-turned-soldiers under Lt. Aldo Raine aka “Aldo the Apache” (Brad Pitt) who go on a Nazi killing spree. The other plot revolves around a young Jewish girl who seeks to avenge the death of her parents by a Nazi group.
• Splat Pack member Eli Roth, and B. J. Novak are two of the eight Basterds.
• Reports say the film is divided into the following five chapters:

  Chapter One: Once Upon a Time in Nazi Occupied France
  Chapter Two: Inglourious Basterds
  Chapter Three: German Night in Paris
  Chapter Four: Operation Kino
  Chapter Five: Revenge of the Giant Face

More on Inglorious Basterds as it comes in. Now, watch the trailer again.