"If anyone is crazy enough to fund it, this movie is gonna be awesome."

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/...antinos_in.html

I love that one of the "chapters" is apparently called "Revenge of the Giant Face." :lol:

Not a fake. It IS 165 pp. I have it on EXCELLENT authority.

I need to read this. Like, pronto. This script should have leaked in full HOURS ago!

I can't believe QT is unable to spell either "inglorious" or "bastards." I can believe his handwriting looks like a 7-year-old's. But I still think it has to be fake.

Harry Knowles Chimes In

Based on what I've read around the net today, I suspect it's very real. I also suspect tha the typos are intentional... perhaps the soldiers refer to themselves as such and it's them misspelling it.

Perhaps the mis-spellings are a watermark to find out who is leaking the scripts...

Jane Hamsher's autobio KILLER INSTINCT contains visual proof that Tarantino is unable to spell the word "legs". If anything, the misspellings support the authenticity of the script.

Plus, all his other scripts contain massive grammatical problems, spelling errors, misused vocabulary and unorthodox authorial asides.

I wonder why the page count is so low, as proposed running times of up to 6 hours have been reported. Like the earliest leaked KILL BILL screenplays, Tarantino may be circulating a partial draft or one with chapter drafts he fully intends to alter, expand, or replace.

If anyone's interested I have the .pdf of the script. Shoot me an e-mail and I'll get it to you. It's actually 2 .pdfs for a total of 9MB.

mlangford AT veritechmedia.com

Apparently, Miramax has signed on to produce Inglorious Bastards (that's a shock, isn't it? :P )

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/37432

I sent out quite a few e-mails... did anybody read it???

I decided to wait.

I read it immediately, pretty much without breathing the entire time.

It's realer than real. And every possible homonym is the wrong word, and all the spelling gets sillier in foreign languages. There are some bizarre asides from the screenwriter that only Tarantino could feel are necessary to the script. My favorite begins "Strangling the very life out of somebody with your bear hands, is the most violent act a human being can commit..."

Suffice to say I love everything about this script, except that it could not have been five times longer.

Mystery Man on Film covers many of the concerns about the script that I had upon reading it (Thanks again, Marty). There is waaaay too much dialogue in this thing. That being said, I don't think, or I certainly hope, Q.T. will be smart and pull up on some of the verbosity and streamline it. There were times during the first part of the script where I thought to myself, yeah, this is cool, only to find myself thinking later in the scene, okay, I think I get the idea, let's move on.

Mystery Man also mentions some historical liberties that Q.T. takes and, without mentioning what they are, let me just say that I have to believe he wrote whatever he felt like putting down on paper and will, before shooting, have amended the script to read more "accurately." That's my sincere hope anyway, If he doesn't want to send people streaming out of the theatre howling with laughter. That's kind of how I view this script---somewhat out of control, but not so much that he can't make it really work if he keeps at it. I don't believe this script will arrive on screen in this exact form.

And it should be one film, not two.

Mystery Man on Film

More interesting reading on the subject:

Reel Politique: Inglorious Basterds

Is it me or does it appear that a lot of people who have never read a screenplay before -- or at least a Tarantino screenplay -- are suddenly reading this one?

Not having read the script, I can only go by the period, situation, and actor involved - but does this strike anyone else as pretty damn nifty movie-movie casting?

Lemme just helpfully isolate that link

Boo. Hiss. Eli Roth was certainly helped by Tarantino's dialogue in Death Proof, particularly that great "time machine" line, but I thought the movie came to a screeching halt whenever he was on camera. This new flick may be Tarantino's Dirty Dozen, but Roth sure ain't no Cassavetes. Actors, Quentin! Actors!

Eli Roth must be one charming son of a bitch to ingratiate himself to so many people and apparently blind them to his fundamental lack of talent.

I'm just saying...

Wouldn't you rather see someone like Fred Ward as Aldo Raine, rather than Pitt, who will have to do a lot to convince me he is a Nazi-killing badass (reminds me how hard the audience laughed at a recent trailer in which DiCaprio beats up Russell Crowe...and the film is not a fantasy)? I guess Pitt's presence at least guarantees the film will be financed. And Krumholtz and Kinski sound like pretty good ideas. I hope QT gets someone great to play the main baddie.

Pitt is a great actor. He's an okay Movie Star, lately choosing a lot of boring parts he could do in his sleep (see: THE MEXICAN thru OCEAN'S NINETEEN or whatever). Between BURN AFTER READING and BASTARDS, it looks like he's actually taking interesting, challenging projects with visionary directors again. Anyone doubting that Pitt can play mentally unhinged, or hasn't the weirdo character chops for the BASTARDS part can check KALIFORNIA, FIGHT CLUB and TWELVE MONKEYS. I suppose I'd "rather" see a crew of pug-ugly tough guys in the movie, but when Brad Pitt is engaged and playing for keeps he lights up the screen.

Eli Roth - well, who knows. We really haven't seen him do much. It's an unforgettable part as written, but it's really not that big, though Roth doesn't automatically lend the casting any class, weight or professionalism. At least the dude is CUT, and I'm less convinced that the supposedly-in-talks B.J. Novak makes any sense.

So, if you haven't heard already, Mike Myers has been cast for what probably amounts to a walk-on.

Apparently, B.J. Novak from The Office, which I've never watched, has signed on for Inglorious Bastards. I was a little disappointed to hear that Simon Pegg dropped out.

http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/node/38069