I have, however, been very much intrigued by a film he’s been working on since like our nation’s Bicentennial (look it up) called Inglorious Bastards. Seriously, he’s been writing on the film for six years and it’s been his next movie pretty much since the day he first mentioned it. Unfortunately, nothing has ever seemed to really happened on the film.

AICN, however, recently got some new news on the project. Knowles and Company are saying that the film is now going to be split into TWO FILMS just like Kill Bill was a couple of years ago.

It seems that Tarantino is at least loosely basing his film on a film of the same name by Enzo Castellari. Severin Films is releasing a 3-disc DVD of that film on July 29 and on one of those DVDs is a 40 minute interview between Quentin Tarantino and Enzo Castellari. In the interview we learn the following:

The first big thing we learn is that Quentin has been writing almost non-stop on INGLORIOUS BASTARDS – and that the premise is the basic jumping off point from Enzo’s original – that you had a bunch of hardened criminals on a military transport during World War II – that got ambushed by the Nazis. Everyone but the criminals gets killed and the prisoners decide to make their way to neutral Switzerland – and must fight the Nazis and the Allies to get there. It’s a true No Man’s Land scenario.

Well, as Quentin has been writing this – he’s done so much research into the actual events of World War II as well as the cinema of World War 2 – that the story kept growing and growing. It became too big for one film – so he’s turned it into 2. That’s right, INGLORIOUS BASTARDS will be two movies… not unlike KILL BILL.

Of course, this is Quentin talking so I’m not sure I’m ready to set that in stone just yet. Tarantino is known more for talking about the movies he wants to make more than he is actually making them. This could just be a crazy idea he’s come up with and hasn’t run past anyone at the studio or anywhere else. There’s no way to know for sure.

In the interview Tarantino also says that he isn’t writing any of the parts in the movie with any individual actors in mind. If you know anything about the Tarantino mythology you’ll know that he is said to have written many of the parts in his films with particular actors in mind – Uma Thurman as The Bride, Pam Grier as Jackie Brown, etc.

I also thought this was especially interesting.

The opening sequence of Quentin’s film is apparently going to be something extraordinary – as Enzo Castellari was geeking out big time just thinking about what Quentin had told him.

So this is definitely one of the movies I want to keep my eyes on. Although I haven’t always been a huge Tarantino fan I’d love to see what he’d actually do with a WWII movie. I think splitting it into two parts will be fine as long as the story needs the extra time and it isn’t just because Tarantino wants to do a 30 minute slo-motion battle scene (check out the article on AICN, it could happen).