I’m convinced Sam Jackson must have a fifty thousand dollar a day coke habit, because he will take any job anywhere.  When he found out he wasn’t up for any part in Inglourious Basterds, he called up Tarantino himself.  Apparently it worked, because he now has a small part as the narrator, who has lines like:

“Needless to say, once the Basterds got heard about him, he never got there.”

“For in the other world, the gods only respect the ones they test first. Well Sgt., this is your test. And the gods are watching.” [JoBlo]

It’s tempting to think those are typos, but let’s face it, they’re not.  These days there’s nothing Quentin loves more than broken English and circular, excessively prefaced monologues.  In fact, many say that Tarantino is in love with circular monologues.  But I’ll tell you this: he also loves broken English.  Because if there’s one thing he’s extremely fond of, and we’re talking Quentin Tarantino here, it’s broken English and circular monologues.

A bunch of blogs recently picked up on some pictures from tarantino.info taken on the set of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards in Saxony, Germany.  They showed the outside of a farm house (be still my f-cking heart), and the above sign.

As you may note, the sign features the original, misspelled, handwritten title of Tarantino’s script, Inglourious Basterds.  Based on this, everyone’s concluding that the final title will retain the original misspelling, but as far as I know, there’s no official word on that and it’s not the only possibility.  It’s possible that Quentin hates spelling and wants the title to remain Inglourious Basterds.  It’s also possible that it’s just a sign and they were being cute.  And it’s further possible that the title really is Inglourious Basterds, but only because it was written by Axziago, an alter ego of Quentin’s who escaped one night after a three-week coke bender and who speaks and types in a futuristic vernacular that only appears to be misspelled to people in our dimension.

FilmDrunk was recently able to obtain an exclusive of Axziago’s only known photograph.

Dianne Kruger (Troy, National Treasure) has been added to the cast of Quentin Tarantino’s poorly-spelled WWII epic Inglorious Bastards.  Of course, such news wouldn’t be post-worthy unless she was naked somehow.  Oh look, whaddya know (NWS, duh).  It’s a great time to be alive, friends.

[Variety]

Tarantino.info today received a poster for Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards. The source still isn’t sure whether it’s official or fan-made.

Today, the internets have washed ashore something that I would very cautiously describe as a potentially real but early draft test print-out (can I say this anymore cautiously?) of an Inglorious Bastards teaser poster. I’ve attached a small version. You all know how cautious I usually am with rumors and other things, there were a few factors that let me determine that this was in fact worth posting considering the medium to high possibility of this one being rather real as opposed to fan-made.

I don’t know who this guy is, so I can’t verify whether or not he’s as cautious as he says. But I can tell you that I have a friend who sleeps with tighty whities on because he’s afraid something might crawl up his pee hole at night. I think you’ll agree that that’s pretty cautious.

[Thanks to The Playlist for the link - they've also got the lowdown on the latest casting]

Simon Pegg has announced via his MySpace page that he won’t be appearing in Inglorious Bastards as previously reported, due to scheduling issues.  Instead, Pegg will be appearing opposite his Hot Fuzz co-star Nick Frost in Paul, "a road movie about two British comic book geeks that get into an adventure across America," to be directed by Superbad‘s Greg Mottola.

AICN reports that David Krumholtz is also out of Inglorious Bastards, and Samm Levine is in.   You may remember Levine as the white kid who thinks he’s Asian in Not Another Teen Movie, or from his guest spots on That’s So Raven.  Ha, just kidding, of course you don’t remember him.  That brings the full cast to Samm Levine, Brad Pitt, Mike Myers, B.J. Novak, and Eli Roth as the Bear Jew – grrr, he’ll maul your taxes.  Meanwhile, the Guardian UK is reporting that the script is already causing outrage in Germany.

If the script is anything to go by, even by Tarantino’s blood-curdling standards the film looks likely to be a stomach-churner. Apart from baseball-bat bashing and skin engravings, we see one German officer being shot in the testicles, as well as scalps being peeled "like a banana skin" from others.  The trouble is that little distinction is made between Nazi and German, ordinary Wehrmacht soldiers or SS officers, to the extent that if the script is anything to go by, there is no such thing as a good German and all of them have to die.

The controversy is reminiscent of protests by pawn shop owners over Pulp Fiction, who objected to their depiction as sex-slave-keeping basement rapers.