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           INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS is the latest film from cult director 
           Quentin Tarantino and features an all-star cast including Brad 
           Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Christoph Waltz 
           (Das Geheimnis im Wald), winner of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival
           best actor award, Diane Kruger (National Treasure: Book of
           Secrets), Eli Roth (Death Proof) and Melanie Laurent (Voyage 
           d'affaires). Alliance Films is scheduled to release INGLOURIOUS 
           BASTERDS across Canada on August 21, 2009.

DVD Reviews

AUSTRALIA (PG)

Harvey Weinstein has had a tough year. His company is rumored to be in trouble-and everything is rumored to rest on the success (or failure) of Quentin Tarantino's WWII opus Inglorious Basterds. The biggest man in indies got on the phone with Alex Pappademas to talk about why Basterds took so long, whether a prequel is in the works, and those pesky rumors that he demanded Tarantino slash the movie to ribbons.

Do you remember when you first heard about Quentin's World War II movie?
Probably seven or eight years ago. And over the course of that time he's read me pieces of it.

Are they things that actually ended up in the film?
Yeah, they were pieces that ended up in the film and then I've also read the stuff that's part of the prequel.

What's the prequel?
I'm not tellin' you! [But] Brad wants to do Inglorious II. We all want to do it. And the movie hasn't even come out yet! But unfortunately I cannot give away the plot. [pause] Unless you turned into Jacqueline Bisset when she was 27 years old. Under those circumstances, I would give it away.

I don't think that I can make that happen, unfortunately. Why do you think it took him so long?
We weren't even gonna do it as a movie! We were gonna do this as, like, 16 hours for Showtime or HBO. He had so much stuff mapped out, we could have done like 3 movies. It was just epic. We could do two movies, three movies. I was begging for the movies, but Quentin wanted to do the TV series, Bob [Weinstein] wanted to do the TV series, so it was like two against one, you know? And I was getting outvoted all over the place, so I just figured, "All right, forget it, I'm not gonna be a loser, I'll jump to the winning side. And then Quentin turns it into one movie. Go figure.

He mentioned that to me, that he was gonna do his Band of Brothers, almost, and then sort of changed his mind about it.
That's correct.

Was he having trouble getting it into a shape, basically? Was that what was happening?
I don't think he was having trouble getting it into a shape, I just think that it was such a big undertaking that it dawned on him that it was time to say, you know what? This piece, unto itself, can make a movie. And then after that there's a bunch of places you can go. He can do the pre-story, he can do the post-story too. I don't want to jump to conclusions on his behalf, but I know he's talked about the past and the future of the Basterds.

He's always like that, right? He knows what's going on, regardless of what's on the page, he knows what the entire back-story is.
It's like George Lucas with Star Wars-he's mapped it out. I know he knows what Kill Bill 3 is. We all know where the basis of it is: it's in that fight scene with Uma Thurman and the kid-y'know, Vivica [Fox's] daughter. So that's the basis for it, but there's a lot of strands, a lot of plots in the movies that Quentin has. The cool thing is, I hope he makes 'em all.

He shared with me his plan: that he's done when he turns 60. He'll do whatever he can do at that point, and then he's gonna stop.
Well, I hope for me that he doesn't stop, but if he does stop, I think he'd be one of the greatest film professors/film critics in movie history. That's the great thing about Quentin; you can go out drinking and hanging out with him, have incredible, fun, crazy nights and then go to a film festival and watch every goddamn movie there is. He called me on the phone, he said, "You've gotta see Jane Campion's new movie, it's her best film in Cannes." And then he rang me right after he saw Vengeance, Johnnie To's movie, and said, "Harvey, you're gonna have such a good time"-and I was howling in the theatre. And he was right about Campion! Quentin was giving me intel in Cannes seeing movies!

He's in his element in those places.
I think he was the happiest I've ever seen him.

Do you think he wanted to get it to Cannes because he felt like he had something to prove, after how Grind House did at the box office?
Oh, no. But I think after Grind House, which took a while, he wanted to get back in the saddle right away. I think he did his B-movie and it was time for him to go back and make another Quentin Tarantino movie.

How do you feel about the reviews coming out of Cannes?
You know what? I felt like the fifteen-minute standing ovation was a review. [laughs] Look, people expect a lot from Quentin, and I think there were some great reviews, and some mixed reviews. I think he's making some adjustments to the movie as we speak, but I think they're all pretty minor. But the movie's great, it plays with audiences, and when I saw it back home in Los Angeles, it wasn't even a movie. It was like going to see the Stones. It was like Aerosmith and the Stones and AC/DC combined. People were cheering, it was like, fucking, I thought they were gonna light candles any second. It was like a 1980's experience.

So the stories about him being asked to cut 40 minutes out of the movie aren't true?
Those stories are all untrue. There's no fucking way. Here, read my lips: That is nuts. Please don't even write that, it's insanity. There's not even a question of that. Whatever you're reading, it's like some insane blogger There's no truth to any of this. He's not gonna cut. What he's doing is just reorganizing some scenes. I mean, the guy had six weeks to cut his movie [for Cannes]; most guys take six months. Most guys take a year. When I worked with Martin [Scorsese], we'd do eighteen months in post-production. Quentin Tarantino cuts a movie in six weeks? Come on, there's shit on that cutting room floor that'll blow your brains out. I was telling Quentin the opposite-'You should put that shit back in the movie.' There's scenes with Brad Pitt and the Basterds, and I'm praying he puts that shit back in, 'cause it's un-fucking-believably great. Listen-this movie will be between two hours and twenty minutes and two hours and twenty-seven minutes. I don't think it's going to be shorter-it's just a question of rearranging. I know he's putting footage back into the movie. I know he's got some cool shit that he didn't get time to address.