20 Things You Didn't Know About Inglourious Basterds

11. Sandler The Basterd

Inglorious Basterds
TWC & Universal Pictures

Just imagine it - Adam Sandler in a Quentin Tarantino film. Apparently Sandler and Tarantino had been in talks for some time for the role of Donny Donowitz (AKA The Bear Jew), a role that ultimately went to Eli Roth. Sandler had obligations to make Judd Apatow's Funny People and so that was that.

Adam Sandler beating Nazis to death with a baseball bat and shredding Hitler to pieces with a machine gun is something we all would've liked to have seen. And if you can't imagine it for yourself, someone has done the work for you...

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