When Quentin Tarantino made his bold statement at Cannes that he would be there in one year with Inglorious Bastards, everyone laughed and shook their heads saying “Ooh, Quentin, you rascal, you” and then continued about their business. Pretty much immediately after the amusing quote, Tarantino went and finished his script and then started casting and scouting locations like a mad man; this told us he was actually serious and was out to prove it.
So here we are. The movie is looking to start production this Fall and a strong cast is forming with Brad Pitt, B.J. Novak, Mike Myers, Samm Levine, and Eli Roth signed on and many more to surely come. This is everything we’ve wanted, isn’t it? We should be giddy and riddled with goosebumps, right? I’m not so sure.
Since all of this began there’s been some other names involved as well; names like Adam Sandler, Simon Pegg, David Krumholtz, and Nastassja Kinski. While Kinski still remains unknown, Sandler, Pegg, and Krumholtz have all had to decline the roles offered to them because of that bastard Hollywood demon, the “conflicting schedule.” Even worse than that, these guys were actually excited to be in this movie!
So the big question sits here, staring us all in the face — will Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards be all that we hope and dream it will be no matter what the final cast is, or is rushing the film to keep a promise and missing out on someone like Adam Sandler or Simon Pegg in new and exciting roles going to take a little bit away from the final product?
Me personally, I would kill to see those two guys in a WWII movie. But the truth is, there’s a lot of talented people out there and when the final product is hand-delivered (or e-mailed or whatever these kids are doing these days), I have to think that QT is going to have a great collection of performances from whomever he settles on. That mad scientist of a director always does.
What do you guys think? Are you disheartened by all the schedule conflicts or confident in the man?
I am keeping my fingers crossed.
The idea of Tarantino film rushed kind of worries me.
But It’s QT, I have yet to be disappointed.
Its silly to think of Tarantino as if he were a trusted brand, but really that’s exactly what it comes down to. When he makes a movie it’s always balls to the wall.
I won’t go so far as to say that he’s compromising the movie–but it seems a little stupid to have a first-choice cast full of people that want to take part replaced by second-stringers due to an arbitrary timeline. And I mean no offense to the actors by “second-stringer”–just saying that they weren’t QT’s first choices for their roles. This movie is a long time coming for him–why slam-bang it together just to prove that you can do it fast? He should take his time, make the movie he wants to make with the CAST he wants, and stop worrying about a self-imposed deadline. But that’s JMO.
NOT DISAPOINTED BY QT, DID YOU SEE DEATH PROOF?
This project has been how long in the making? Add in the love of movies, superb skills in past casting, passion for the subject, pride at completion and an ego to rival the size of the world…do you really think that QT would push ahead with ANYthing or ANYone not fitting the vision or skilled enough to carry it out? He’ll fit the cast together with defined precision and play them like fiddles. Just because people can’t see his vision right now doesn’t mean that there isn’t full and opulent vision present. There will probably be many who don’t “get” the vision who will be yelling loud and long about the mess being created. I for one am sitting back in comfortable anticipation of the soon to be released magnum opus.