Now that we’ve all had a chance to see some of the video footage that has been leaking from the set of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds (footage that has since disappeared), you might have noticed that the man himself was nowhere to be found in most of the clips. But, according to The Quentin Tarantino Archives, one man who has been behind the camera lately is Mr. ‘Torture Porn’ himself, Eli Roth. Rumor has it Roth is directing a Nazi propaganda film to be included in the story of “…a group of prisoners-turned-soldiers whose mission is to take down a group of Nazis, and the other follows a young Jewish woman who seeks to avenge the death of her parents by this Nazi group.”
The horror director first signed on to the project back in August to play Sgt. Donnie Donowitz, “a baseball bat swinging Nazi hunter”. But, I guess Roth wasn’t content with just being in front of the camera this time around. QT Archives reports that Roth is directing the story of “Daniel Brühl as a Nazi sniper and GIs on a suicide mission.” — presumably while Tarantino was off teaching Til Schweiger how to do a spit take.
You almost have to feel sorry for Tarantino with the amount of scrutiny surrounding his WWII epic — think about it, when was the last time a headline about an orchestral score got this much attention? So far, Tarantino and company have managed to keep a few details from spilling with the help of the odd water cannon. So, you may be wondering: why all the mania? Well, maybe it’s because Tarantino has been talking about making Basterds for so long — or maybe it’s just because for a lot fans, Grindhouse wasn’t the comeback they had been hoping for. Either way you cut it, we may not like what the guy has come up with, but at least it will be like nothing else we’ve seen before.
Inglorious Basterds is expected to arrive in theaters in 2009.
Filed under: Universal, RumorMonger, The Weinstein Co., DIY/Filmmaking, Quentin Tarantino, War, Western
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