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• Series: Inglourious Basterds

Universal Wants More BASTERDS

Brad Pitt as Lieutenant Aldo Raine in Quentin Tarantino's INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS(2009).
© Universal Pictures, The Weinstein Company

It seems that a Tarantino movie clocking in at two hours and 27 minutes isn't long enough for Universal's liking. A few days after Inglourious Basterds premiered at Cannes to early positive reviews, Variety's Anne Thompson has indicated on her blog that the co-distributor is talking to Quentin Tarantino about adding another scene to the final cut, which is expected to hit mass theaters in August.

Brad and Angelina seemed happy, as did an ebullient Quentin Tarantino, although TWC's 50/50 partner on the picture, Universal, UPDATE: is talking to the filmmaker about returning to the editing room post-Cannes to make some trims edits that might include adding a scene, says Tarantino, who reminds that the film, at two hours 27 minutes, is well under his contractual final cut length of two hours 48 minutes.

The long-awaited WWII blood fest features an ensemble cast including 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. Quentin penned the script and director for The Weinstein Company and Universal Pictures.

Plot Concept: The story begins in German-occupied France, where Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema.

Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution. Known to their enemy as "The Basterds," Raine's squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich. Fates converge under a cinema marquee, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own...

Inglourious Basterds will hit theaters August 21, 2009.