Brad Pitt wants to catch him some Nazi's again with INGLOURIOUS II?

By Matt Holmes /

Harvey Weinstein has been talking to GQ Style magazine about the truth behind the much discussed butchering of the Cannes version of Inglourious Basterds, how the project went from being a Band of Brothers HBO series into an epic motion picture, and also lets slip that Brad Pitt wants to do an Inglourious II, a project Quentin Tarantino has previously mentioned could be a prequel. You know, it's the one he said he had "half-written" about African-American soldiers which were previously part of Inglourious Basterds before he cut characters and sub-plots to get it down to a manageable length. First on the follow-up, which is barely anything really except...

Brad wants to do Inglorious II. We all want to do it. And the movie hasn€™t even come out yet! But unfortunately I cannot give away the plot.
Guess it depends on how the movie performs in just under two months time. Many analysts have already predicted that the movie is crucial to the future survival of the Weinstein company and whichever way the pendulum swings with audiences is pretty much going to decide whether the company has a future or not. Tarantino has let them down before with Grindhouse (or was it that the U.S. audience let him down?), it'll sure be interesting to see if lightening strikes twice again here. One message that Harvey Weinstein is adamant to get across is that if the movie fails, it'll be on Quentin's hands and not because Harvey or Bob has cut the film the way he wants too. Recent reports (specifically from The Wrap) claimed that The Weinsteins wanted to cut forty minutes out of the piece after the screenings mostly negative reaction in Cannes. Harvey says;
Those stories are all untrue. There€™s no fucking way. Here, read my lips: That is nuts. Please don€™t even write that, it€™s insanity. There€™s not even a question of that. Whatever you€™re reading, it€™s like some insane blogger€ There€™s no truth to any of this. He€™s not gonna cut. What he€™s doing is just reorganizing some scenes. I mean, the guy had six weeks to cut his movie ; most guys take six months. Most guys take a year. When I worked with Martin , we€™d do eighteen months in post-production. Quentin Tarantino cuts a movie in six weeks? Come on, there€™s shit on that cutting-room floor that€™ll blow your brains out. I was telling Quentin the opposite€”"You should put that shit back in the movie." There€™s scenes with Brad Pitt and the Basterds, and I€™m praying he puts that shit back in, €˜cause it€™s un-fucking-believably great. Listen€”this movie will be between two hours and twenty minutes and two hours and twenty-seven minutes. I don€™t think it€™s going to be shorter€”it€™s just a question of rearranging. I know he€™s putting footage back into the movie. I know he€™s got some cool shit that he didn€™t get time to address.
Weinstein also spoke of the Band of Brothers esque HBO-style saga which Tarantino had planned to be the Inglourious Basterds showcase...
We weren€™t even gonna do it as a movie! We were gonna do this as, like, 16 hours for Showtime or HBO. He had so much stuff mapped out, we could have done like 3 movies. It was justepic. We could do two movies, three movies. I was begging for the movies, but Quentin wanted to do the TV series, Bob wanted to do the TV series, so it was like two against one, you know? And I was getting outvoted all over the place, so I just figured, €œAll right, forget it, I€™m not gonna be a loser, I€™ll jump to the winning side." And then Quentin turns it into one movie. Go figure.
Inglourious Basterds opens in the U.K. and U.S. on August 21st

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