hm… AICN goes a bit further in the speculating
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German-born Til Shweiger (“Driven,” “Lara Croft II”) will play either bloodthirsty maniac Hugo Stiglitz, the German-born member of Lt. Aldo Raine’s American squad of angry, vengeful Nazi-killing Jews, or Wilhelm Wicki, an Austrian-born American Jew that Raine has taken into the the same squad.
Both are characters in Quentin Tarantino’s World War II epic “Inglorious Bastards,” which starts shooting in Germany next month.
Also aboard the project is Daniel Brühl (“The Bourne Ultimatum”), 30-year-old Spanish-born son of German director Hanno Brühl. Brühl may be playing the wily Gestapo major Dieter Hellstrom, or perhaps Nazi sniper-hero Frederick Zoller, or perhaps the German-speaking member of Raine’s crew not played by Schweiger.
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BTW, the THR title is a lie: “Tarantino gets his French girl.”.:mrgreen: But seems like news are improving on the German side of the cast. Just hope it might put the pressure in a positive way on the French casting team… Because I’m really curious on how they are gonna find the right Shosanna and the right Marcel.
I still doubts that Myers play Gen.Fenech. I can saw him playing the sporting goods shop owner Mr Goorowitz role.
I ran across this IB chart on NYMag site that shows who has been cast in what role along with photos along with the roles that haven’t been filled… interesting QT still has a number of roles to cast :laugh: :o
<LINK_TEXT text=“http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/20 … ecard.html”>Vulture’s ‘Inglorious Bastards’ Casting Scorecard - Slideshow - Vulture</LINK_TEXT>
nice. they got the wrong picture of Chris Waltz though… emailed them about it
It’s been proved -the cancelling of Tim Roth and Adam Sandler- that some of the casting choices might not be QT’s first choices for the concerned parts. Concerning KB, QT had told about his “Dietrich/Von Sternberg” theorema: due to Uma’s pregnancy, he wondered if he wanted to do the movie with another actress -he even thought of Michelle Yeoh- but finally decided that -in his own words- if Dietrich gets pregnant Von Sternberg had to wait for her to make the movie. Seems like he abandoned this theorema. I cross my fingers until 2009 and just hope he took the right decision.
I think on this film QT decided not to write for certain people from the beginning. Of course Tim or Adam may have been able to play those parts, but IB wasnt written for anyone specific like Kill Bill was. He said that if he writes for certain people that sort of limits what the characters can do. He wanted to just let the characters do what they do and whoever he saw that was best for the character he’d use.
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I think on this film QT decided not to write for certain people from the beginning. Of course Tim or Adam may have been able to play those parts, but IB wasnt written for anyone specific like Kill Bill was.
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You’re right about QT’s intentions but I still feel that some choices made, even if the finally chosen person has the right face for the role, are very risky ones for a project that, contrarely to DP, QT doesn’t seem to do just for his own pleasure…
I think all his films are films he wants to see personally. But I also think he doesnt want to pick A list stars because it might take away from the realism of the piece.
A bunch of Jewish kids in WWII shouldnt look like GQs Men of the Year. Its not realistic. These guys are basically geeks from the 1940s, even Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) is supposed to be a white trash hillbilly. He may be better looking, but thats not what the movie should be about.
If QT didnt think these guys could do a great job or that he didnt know EXACTLY how he wants them to be in the movie, he couldnt cast them. I also think that he went with fresher actors so he wouldnt have to deal with egos. Imagine if he had Bruce, Sly and Arnold in this. The film would never get made. QT is the artist and his actors are his clay. He cant have a bunch of huge egos running the show.
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Seems like he abandoned this theorema.
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well it’s just not the case here.
as for Tim and Adam, show me a quote that sais he actually wanted them for specific roles from the start, coz I believe those have always been rumors…
he wrote a script, and now he’s setting out to find actors who can play these roles. in most cases, that’s how it works… I don’t get all the pessimism in here… I don’t get all this “he’s not a QT regular, damn the project will fail” talk… it’s just nonsense
[quote=“Sebastian”] I don’t get all this “he’s not a QT regular, damn the project will fail” talk… it’s just nonsense
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I didn’t say I wanted QT regulars -Sandler isn’t one BTW-. I didn’t say the project will fail. I just said that I thought some actors looked physically perfect for their roles -ER, Krüger- but haven’t proved yet they had acting abilities. I’m saying in that case QT is taking a big risk. He has to make huge miracles on the set and turn them into acting gold.
PS: About the regular thing… As I learned at the time that Travolta and Uma were cast for PF, I felt very enthusiastic because I had appreciated Travolta’s performance in Blow Out and Uma’s in Dangerous Laisons. I wasn’t critical about the choice of Lucy Liu for KB because of her role as Ling in Ally Mc Beal had proved me she could do more things than Charlies’ Angels. On this point, I have to add I’m not critical about the possible Sam Levine cast because he was excellent in Freaks and Geeks…
I’m pretty tired of people assuming all of QT’s ‘regulars’ will be in this. I don’t watch his movies for a specific actor.
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I’m pretty tired of people assuming all of QT’s ‘regulars’ will be in this. I don’t watch his movies for a specific actor.
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If you read well, it isn’t what I wrote. I want decent actors and I don’t consider Roth or Krüger to be that.
I sill think that even if some of these choice we consider to be not so good actors, there’s a good chance that they will prove that they can actually do better than in the past under the direction of Quentin. he doesn’t chose these people out of some weird mood, i’m pretty sure we’ll all be positively surprised what these people are capable of, once they are - for example - freed from the sinister evils of J. Bruckheimer, or cough Jerry B.
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I sill think that even if some of these choice we consider to be not so good actors, there’s a good chance that they will prove that they can actually do better than in the past under the direction of Quentin. [/quote]
Hope you’re right. After all, was Maggie Cheung that great before she caught Wong Kar Wai’s attention? No if I remember the first -and very good- Police Story.
Well I think there’s now a certain amount of scepticm even within the hardcore fans, when it comes to casting choices, due to Death Proof’s largely uninspired cast. Save for Kurt Russel, Sidney Poitier and Rose McGowan, none of the other acting performances were standout performances. This MATTERS as QT always had a knack for bringing out the best in people, no matter how small the role, in his previous four films. Can anyone honestly say Mary Elizabeth Winstead or Rosario Dawson or Venessa Ferlito gave strong performances? I mean practically anybody could have filled those roles, there wasn’t really much range required and maybe that was the problem. But then again even the simplest of roles in the past have been filled more than adequately. So what always normally worked for Quentin previously, failed to work in Death Proof. So now people are starting to doubt him. Can he still get the best out of his actors? Has he got his work cut out working with less experienced actors?
I’m sorry to bring the Death Proof thing into this, but it is so very relevant seen as it was his last film and thus the form we should be judging him by. Nothing is saying IB won’t have some of the greatest acting ever, but now there is that doubt…
I liked Rosario Dawson A LOT, as much as Sidney Poitier. And don’t forget Tracie Thoms who I think was really Tarantino-like, same kind of character as Samuel L. Jackson, the way she speaks. But I know what you mean. But I think since it was more like a female “buddy” movie, no need of strong famous actresses, just hot new actresses speaking a lot
Tracie Thoms belongs in a Tarantino film, but other than her. The Death Proof performances were as forgettable as the script.
Inglorious Bastards is a very memorable script and, wishing not to sound too much like an obsessive QT fan, this movie will own every one of us.
I thought Tracie Thoms was great in her role. She really showed that she knew how to deliver Tarantino’s dialogue and I even remember seeing QT refer to her as a female Samuel Jackson. The girls in the film weren’t great but they weren’t that bad. QT got a better performance out of Rose McGowan in Deathproof than RR got out of her in Planet Terror. Rose really can’t carry a movie. She’s better suited for smaller roles.
Deathproof may be considered crap now but in 40 years when they are doing an AFI tribute to him they’ll probably be saying that it was his “unheralded masterpiece”.
uuuuh can we AGAIN please stop the death proof bashing, this is getting anoyingly off topic, haven’t we in the mean time opened several topics for death proof bashing in the death proof section?