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Tarantino Goes to War with Inglorious BastardsQuentin Tarantino is Set to Unleash His Long-Gestating WWII Epic.
Long famous for films he has almost made, Quentin Tarantino is finally ready to mount his massive production of Inglorious Bastards.
Writer-director Quentin Tarantino shot to acclaim with his first film Reservoir Dogs. While that film was a critical sensation, Tarantino did not achieve international notoriety and Hollywood clout until the release of Pulp Fiction, a critical and box office hit and Oscar winner to boot. Since then, Tarantino has become as famous for films he has abandoned as those he has completed. Films Quentin Tarantino Didn't MakeFor years, his dream World War Two project Inglorious Bastards seemed destined to a similar fate as these embryonic Tarantino projects: --The Vega Brothers would have starred two characters in Tarantino’s extended universe, Mr. Blonde/AKA Vic Vega (Michael Madsen) from Reservoir Dogs, and Vincent Vega (John Travolta) from Pulp Fiction; Tarantino originally announced his intention to make this film in a 2004 interview with Rolling Stone, but abandoned the notion in a 2007 radio interview --After Kill Bill, Tarantino proclaimed his intent to make a low-budget kung fu movie entirely in Mandarin; he opted to make his installment of Grindhouse instead --Tarantino has stated on numerous occasions that an anime-style prequel to Kill Bill was in the pipeline; while he hasn’t officially abandoned this project, it has yet to materialize --during his initial flush with stardom, Tarantino was often quoted as in talks to write movies for various actors, including an international kidnap story for Chow Yun-Fat, a comedy for sisters Patricia and Rosanna Arquette and possibly an homage to Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein to star Tarantino and close friend and stand-up comedian Margaret Cho Inglorious Road to FilmingTarantino first sketched out his idea for Inglorious Bastards in a Dayton Daily News interview in 2001, claiming that it would be his version of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. What started as a spaghetti western loosely based on Enzo G. Castellari's 1978 film of the same name, turned into a Dirty Dozen-style war film set in Nazi-occupied France. By 2002, the script had ballooned to three separate films. Instead of the dreaded trilogy scenario, Tarantino set about distilling these screenplays into a more manageable length. This task, along with other Second World War films in pre-production at the time, prompted Tarantino to put it on the back burner and focus on the Kill Bill films. Production almost started again in 2004, but stalled when Tarantino’s involvement in Grindhouse took precedence. The director took this opportunity to pare his script down to 222 pages. Finally, once he completed promotion for Death Proof, Tarantino announced that production was going forward on Inglorious Bastards. Rumored to star in film were Michael Madsen, Tim Roth, Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio. Tarantino often stated his hope to enlist the help of former action heroes in supporting roles, including Eddie Murphy, Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis. Along with help from Harvey Weinstein, Tarantino claimed that his spaghetti-war film would be ready to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009.
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