TOLDJA! Brad Pitt Signed To ‘Bastards’

COMMENTS (24)

• I wish them luck. Anything to overshadow the Britney Spears/Faster Pussycat Kill Kill Tarantino’s Career Completely reports.

  Comment by Furious D — Thursday August 7, 2008 @ 3:18pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Good. Hopefully, Pitt will return to roles more like his Early Grace from KALIFORNIA. It’s time to play the ugly again, buddy.

  Comment by joe — Thursday August 7, 2008 @ 4:03pm PDT  Reply to this post

• No one will see this film no matter who is in it.

  Comment by FairyTaleListener — Thursday August 7, 2008 @ 5:01pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Brad can only ham for the camera nowadays. Quentin only brings hype. Together who knows a perfect collosal flop!

  Comment by Jimmy James — Thursday August 7, 2008 @ 5:02pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Natalie Portman seems like a natural fit for the female role.

  Comment by JS — Thursday August 7, 2008 @ 5:31pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Short GE stock. You can be sure this will fail, but Harvey is going to line his own pockets, and make a fortune.

  Comment by Bob7 — Thursday August 7, 2008 @ 5:52pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I think Portman would be too young for the female role. Outside of an “undiscovered, brilliant, German actress”…I would say the top three would be

  1. Angelina Jolie
  2. Natasha McElhone
  3. Kate Beckinsale

  I would’ve said Cate Blanchette but she already did THE GOOD GERMAN. So…

  Comment by joe granville — Thursday August 7, 2008 @ 6:53pm PDT  Reply to this post

• More interesting is the fact Quentin has turned his Operation: Career Resurrection onto Nastassja Kinski who could do with a comeback thanks to the fact she actually has talent which is more than I can say for most in Hollyweird.

  Comment by Crystal Diane Stevens — Thursday August 7, 2008 @ 7:21pm PDT  Reply to this post

• To say no one wants to see this is silly. QT only borrows/steals from the best and this has been in his head for little under a decade. I easily see the repeat success of Kill Bill but only a little more with Pitt in the top bill. Another A lister for the roles of Hugo Stiglitz or/and Hans Landa will equal a great amount of promotion/box office appeal. You might remember that steaming pile of dog crap that is Mummy 3 that is still headed towards getting its production budget back stateside.

  Comment by Josh Huffman — Thursday August 7, 2008 @ 8:09pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Could be good, is it true what they say about Q? He can’t spell.

  Comment by nobody — Thursday August 7, 2008 @ 9:12pm PDT  Reply to this post

• It’s true: he can’t spell. And the script is unreadable. It needs some serious editing and tightening before it gets to the theaters.

  Comment by Nofare — Thursday August 7, 2008 @ 11:17pm PDT  Reply to this post

• These geekoff movies are a waste a time. After the geeks see them, nothing but crickets remain.

  The hype will kill this movie before it ever gets to a screen anyway.

  Comment by Dood — Thursday August 7, 2008 @ 11:22pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Thank you Nofare. To say it needs work is the understatement of the year. I really, truly wanted to like it. With the stunt casting– Eli Roth: really?! — this is already problematic in the extreme.

  Comment by Jack Burton — Friday August 8, 2008 @ 12:36am PDT  Reply to this post

• Why are so many people doubting this project? The only Tarantino project to lost money was Grindhouse, and that was only half his. “Gargantuan flop”- please! The buzz will not necessarily match the budget. Hopefully this will be budgeted around 75 mil. tops. If it turns out well, it will make that back stateside. And it would do well internationally.

  And let’s not forget that both Kill Bills, Pulp Fiction, and Resevoir Dogs are perennial home video sellers as well.

  I doubt this will flop.

  Comment by Bentley — Friday August 8, 2008 @ 6:46am PDT  Reply to this post

• Nice! I look forward to seeing what performance Tarantino will get from Pitt. This should be very interesting.

  Comment by Horror-101 — Friday August 8, 2008 @ 8:25am PDT  Reply to this post

• Say what you want about Tarantino (I’m a fan), but he knows how to get get performances from actors. This site’s talkback is almost as silly as Aint it cool News. Bunch of whiners. Geez.
  As a movie fan, I cannot wait to see this film. I guess I’m just old fashioned since I don’t bash a movie before it’s made…silly me.

  Comment by jeff — Friday August 8, 2008 @ 8:48am PDT  Reply to this post

• I wouldn’t say him being unable to spell is a big deal. To say the script is unreadable is silly. It’s fine, if you can get past Bastards being spelled Basterds.
  It’s not as if this is his first script, so to get caught up on those details is just jealousy that better spelling may not translate into better story-telling…
  By the way, most languages didn’t have standardized spelling until a couple hundred years ago. Check out the original Shakespeare=P

  Comment by IcanRead — Friday August 8, 2008 @ 8:54am PDT  Reply to this post

• The haters are predictable. “The script is terrible! QT can’t spell! It needs a HUGE rewrite!”

  All the same stuff we heard when the KILL BILL script was made public. And how did that turn out? The film only went on to earn over $330 Million world wide.

  Yes, the script is written loose, it’s ill-formatted, not all the character stuff is on the page, etc etc. However QT isn’t writing for publication, he’s writing for himself. If QT were financing his own movies, I suspect he’d just write the damn thing on Post It Notes and cocktail napkins from KPK and go shoot.

  People will indeed go see this movie and it will indeed be successful. While GRINDHOUSE failed financially, critically, it did very well. The problem was that no one knew how the market it, and the decision to center said marketing around RR’s squeeze, Rose McGowan, was a huge mistake.

  And while DEATH PROOF is indeed very self indulgent and a definite mis-step for QT, it’s still the better half of that movie and better than 90% of the other movies that came out that year.

  This will do well.

  Comment by Raider — Friday August 8, 2008 @ 9:00am PDT  Reply to this post

• I still believe Hollywood and the media that covers the industry is still under the assumption that Quentin Tarantino is a main stream film maker. HE IS NOT! Take the average moviegoer and ask them if they liked the Kill Bill Movies and I guarantee you they will tell you no!Personally, I was not a fan! Grind House was made for people who enjoy cheesy B movies(Im in that camp) that’s why it became a tough sell and while Pulp Fiction gave him his big time celebrity fame and critical adoration how many feel that the Rape scene featuring the Vig RHAMES character came from the mind of an everyday main stream director and writer. Personally I have mixed feelings on the guy. He has a love of movies and he is creative to a point, but his taste for the plain weird is a litle disturbing and I have no doubt that INGLOURIOUS BASTARDS will be way off the main stream which will make it hard to market to a mass audience. So Hollywood- Be cafeful what you wish for!

  Comment by entertainmenttodayandbeyond — Friday August 8, 2008 @ 9:19am PDT  Reply to this post

• I agree 100% with RAIDER. The script was very readable and quite good. I also think that the reason people bash it for “still missing” elements is because they dont’ get past the page. They don’t like Q fill in what isn’t on the page with the actor’s he’s going to choose and the performances that he’ll strive to get out of them. It’s typical that all these people want to “see it ALL on the page” most amateur writers put in way “TOO MUCH” on the page because they don’t account for performance. Shakespeare was the greatest because he left it at “THEY ENTER” “EXUENT”. He knows the rest will transfer from his head onto the screen once he’s on the set and in the flow with his actors. You jealous babies kill me.

  Comment by joe granville — Friday August 8, 2008 @ 10:48am PDT  Reply to this post

• Raider, step away from the bong. Grindhouse got roasted critically, and it was the worst half of the movie.

  Comment by RogerMDillon — Friday August 8, 2008 @ 6:53pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Yeah, Roger, that 77 rating on Metacritic is a real critical roasting of “Grindhouse.”

  Whine all you want about “Inglorious Bastards” — every single person who cares enough to post on this site is going to see it. You know it.

  Comment by Sean S — Saturday August 9, 2008 @ 1:21am PDT  Reply to this post

• I remember seeing QT lumbering down Crescent Heights, crossing at Sunset, just a few days after Pulp Fiction hit the theaters with a bang. He was wearing an old Led Zepplin T-shirt and ratty sweat pants, but man that dude must have felt like he was on top of the world…. And he was.

  Comment by kill keyth — Saturday August 9, 2008 @ 3:40pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I like Qt, but I am tired of hearing about brad pitt. he is overrated and overexposed

  Comment by marie — Monday August 11, 2008 @ 9:04pm PDT  Reply to this post