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• Series: Inglourious Basterds

BASTERDS Premieres at Cannes

Guess which card in Quentin Tarantino's INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS(2009).
© Universal Pictures, The Weinstein Company

Last year, when preproduction first began heating up on Inglourious Basterds, director Quentin Tarantino professed hopes of getting it complete in time for this year's Cannes Film Festival. It seems his hopes have been fulfilled with Variety confirming that his WWII epic will been invited to play in competition at the May festival.

Tarantino, a longtime favorite of the French, has accepted the offer and has told the film's backers -- the Weinstein Co. and Universal Pictures -- that the film will be ready for its world premiere during the May festival.

The film features an ensemble cast that includes: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Melanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Bruhl, Eli Roth, Samm Levine, B.J. Novak, Til Schweiger, Gedeon Burkhard, Paul Rust, Michael Bacall, Omar Doom, Sylvester Groth, Julie Dreyfus, Jacky Ido, August Diehl, Martin Wuttke, Richard Sammel, Christian Berkel, Sonke Mohring, Michael Fassbender, Mike Myers, Rod Taylor, Denis Menochet, Cloris Leachman, Maggie Cheung and Samuel L. Jackson.

You can check out the first trailer here.

Plot Concept: The story follows a band of Jewish-American soldiers whose mission is to take down a group of Nazis, will be released on August 21.

Inglourious Basterds will hit theaters August 21, 2009.