Pitt Officially a Bastard! Pegg, Krumholtz and Kinski are next!
Cast for Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards starting to pick-up!
It was expected that more casting info would continue to circle out of this hot film property. Officially Brad Pitt has signed on to play according to the trades,
Pitt will play a Tennessee hillbilly who assembles a team of eight Jewish-American soldiers. Bender said casting should be complete in about a week or two. Eli Roth will play the role of Sgt. Donnie Donowitz, and Tarantino is locking in the other seven American actors who make up the Bastards team.
With this official news other casting possibilities have circled around Simon Pegg, David Krumholtz and Natasha Kinski. According to the Hollywood Reporter,
Pegg would play a British lieutenant. Krumholtz’s part would be that of a member of Pitt’s team.
Nastassja Kinski is meeting with Tarantino for the part of a German actress. Producer Lawrence Bender said the alchemy of Pitt and Tarantino, who have never worked together as actor and director, will yield unique results. “They’re going to push each other and really help make something special,” he said.
Pitt’s character is a voluble, freewheeling outlaw in the manner of Samuel L. Jackson’s Jules Winnfield in “Pulp Fiction,” prone to saying things like “we’re gonna be doing one thing, and one thing only, and that’s killing Nazis,” according to those familiar with the script.
The signing of Pitt, who first saw the script in early July, means that the production has locked down a key role as it moves forward on an accelerated schedule.
