Brad Pitt Is a Bastard

Brad Pitt has signed on to star in Quentin Tarantino’s World War II drama Inglorious Bastards. Let’s hope it’s better than Hell Ride.

Pitt will play a Tennessee hillbilly who assembles a team of Jewish-American soldiers who are sent on a suicide mission during World War II.

Apparently the script begins with the title “ONCE UPON A TIME…in Nazi-occupied France.” Saving Private Ryan meets Reservoir Dogs, perhaps?

Director Eli Roth (Hostel), Simon Pegg (Hot Fuzz, Shaun on the Dead) and BJ Novak (original British The Office) are also reportedly joining the cast and Natasha Kinski is in talks to play a Dietrich-esque German film goddess. Will Kinski be this film’s Tarantino resurrection? She hasn't appeared onscreen since 2006 and hasn't been in a noteworthy film since 1997. Previously, Tarantino's revived John Travolta, Pam Grier, Robert Forester, David Carradine and he can be credited with an assist for Mickey Rourke.