Archive for July, 2008

The original Inglorious Bastards film that provided Quentin his inspiration for his upcoming film of the same name is being re-released on DVD in two versions – a standard DVD release and a 3 disc special edition.

In the hour-plus making-of featurette on disc two, skip past the first 40 minutes of rusty remembrances to get to how special effects guru Gino “Bombardone” De Rossi built balsa-wood artillery after the Italian police confiscated the production’s dummy guns. (Also good: behind-the-scenes footage of the explosive bridge and train station set pieces.) According to De Rossi, the film called for more than 450 pounds of gunpowder, which explains how pyrotechnics remained fresh even as the military vehicles and stuntmen were recycled from shot to shot.
But the main attraction is certainly the dynamic between Tarantino and Castellari, mutually starstruck as the younger director teases his next feature (“I realized it’s like two movies, and so the first one is what I’m doing now”) and debates whether to co-opt his idol’s love for slow-motion action sequences.

I’m way behind on posting news, but just noticed this JoBlo story about the possible casting of Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio in Inglorious Bastards. Those really don’t seem like Tarantino guys, though I think Pitt would do great with some snappy dialogue.