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Tarantino's Basterds Gets Its Date!

Source:The Weinstein Company
December 31, 2008


The Weinstein Company has announced that Quentin Tarantino's sixth movie Inglourious Basterds (the title is spelled as such by the studio and Tarantino), a WWII film starring Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger and Christoph Waltz, will be released on August 21, 2009.

Co-financed by The Weinstein Company with Univeral Pictures, the late summer release will put the movie up against New Line's Final Destination: Death Trip 3D and the comedy The Goods: The Don Ready Story.

Inglourious Basterds begins in German-occupied France, where Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Waltz). Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema.

Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Pitt) organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution. Known to their enemy as "The Basterds," Raine's squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark (Kruger) on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich. Fates converge under a cinema marquee, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own...

COMMENTS (40)

Posted by:
Thomas
December 31, 2008
weird release date. Hopefully it will still make money
Posted by:
Dark Knight
December 31, 2008
I can't wait!
Posted by:
juno
December 31, 2008
cool
Posted by:
DedrabbiT
December 31, 2008
cannot wait for this film!

hope it turns out to be tarantinos best.
Posted by:
joe asylo
December 31, 2008
all right we got something now.
went is the trailer coming?
Posted by:
Damn
December 31, 2008
Thats definitly a better release than Grindhouse had in Easter. Hopefully now it'll make some money!
And give us the trailer already!
Posted by:
the_movie_guy
December 31, 2008
The script was a brilliant read. As is all of Tarantino's work.
Posted by:
Derrick Clarke
December 31, 2008
awesome!! I'll check this out!!
Posted by:
Tarheel
December 31, 2008
I have loved all of QT's work except the Kill Bill films, so I will definitely be there opening weekend for this.
Posted by:
sunnyrichardson
December 31, 2008
Don't be surprised if they push it back. There might be a lot of critical praise and the studios might want to release it later in the year for Oscar consideration.

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