Inglourious Basterds will be 1 minute longer and there may be sequels and prequels.

Inglourious Basterds is almost with us, but not after a little bit of tweaking in the editing room.

Eli Roth who plays Bear Jew in the film told MovieWeb that the film was going to be five to six minutes longer than the version that played at Cannes.

He also hinted that Quentin Tarantino has already planned, not only a sequel, but also a prequel that would reunite Bear Jew with Brad Pitt's Lt. Aldo Raine.

This is what Roth had to say about the new length of the theatrical version:

After Cannes, Quentin always said that he wanted to do some cutting, and pruning, and that he was going to be changing things. There was a lot of stuff left out before. He felt that he had over cut. There were certain scenes that were taken out for Cannes that will come back into the final version. Because it plays better like that. I think the final version of the film is five or six minutes longer than the version shown in Cannes. From what Quentin has told me, he has fleshed it out a little bit more. Cannes running length was at two hours and twenty-five minutes. I think this is a little over two hours and thirty minutes. Something close to that.

Quentin Tarantino has since said that the new cut is only a minute long, but that does help the film flow a little better. He spoke to BFDealMemo. "The movie is actually a minute longer, in running time, than it was in Cannes. It was 2:28, without end credits, and now it's 2:29, or 2:32 with end credits." That means it is now 149 minutes.

Roth also spoke about a possible sequel/prequel

Quentin has an entire universe planned out for Inglourious Basterds. With Aldo and Donny in Italy with a troop of black soliders. He has a whole prequel planned, and most of it is written. If the movie does well, he will make the prequel. I want to see a prequel. Both Brad and I want to be in it. Brad and I were in Cannes screaming, "Prequel, prequel, prequel!" He even has two sequels planned. He's not necessarily going to make these movies. But he has at least four our five stories centering on these characters that span through the fifties and sixties. He knows exactly where these characters are going. He has this whole universe mapped out in his head.

I can't wait to see this film. Just got to wait until 21st August.

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Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds - Second trailer

During World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "the Basterds" are chosen to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a young French girl named Shosanna who runs a movie theater in Paris that is frequented by soldiers.

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Inglourious Basterds - Cool Italian Poster

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Farewell to the Relfinator

Today is a sad day.

My good friend, Pete Relf - work colleague, man of a thousand names and fellow comic book and video game fan - is finishing work today to travel around Europe.

Do not be fooled. The photo on the left is not that of the brilliant silent movie actor Harold Lloyd it is the Relfinator. It is also a colour photo. Don't ask.

There you have it ExceedTron, Inspector Gadget, McLovin, and all the rest of his names has left the building.

You will be missed Pete. Hey, let's be careful out there.

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UPDATED:Inglourious Basterds - Cannes Press Conference video and photos

Jeffrey Wells posted these photos and video footage from the opening of the Inglourious Basterds press conference at the Cannes Film Festival. Above is Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth and Brad Pitt.

Below is Diane Kruger and Quentin Tarantino.
Below is Mélanie Laurent.

UPDATE: Pat mentioned in the comments this better bit of video from the Press conference below. Thanks Pat

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Inglourious Basterds - 3 new clips from Tarantino's war film

The full 2 hours and 40 minutes of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is premiering at Cannes . I don't have that, but Collider did have these three clips from the film.

The clips show Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) informing Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) of two recent developments in the operation.

Lt. Aldo Raine (Pitt) interrogating a German soldier about the locations of their camps and the artillery they have. He respectively declines the offer and decides to die for his country.

Col. Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) telling Frederick Zoller (Daniel Brühl) how Jews are like rats.

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Eli Roth is a Basterd - New poster for Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds

During World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "the Basterds" are chosen to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris that is targeted by soldiers.

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Inglourious Basterds Photos

Vanity Fair have some excellent photos for Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. The photo above has, from the left Mélanie Laurent as Shosanna Dreyfus, Christopher Waltz as Colonel Hans Landa, Omar Doom as P.F.C. Omar Ulmer, Daniel Brühl as Frederick Zoller, Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth as Sergeant Donny Donowitz, Diane Kruger Bridget von Hammersmark, and Brad Pitt as the Nazi-hunting Lieutenant Aldo Raine.

Is it just me or does Taratino look like his character in From Dusk Til Dawn when he has vamped out?

Be sure to check out the rest of the photos over on Vanity Fair.

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Inglorious Basterds - Trailer

Here is the trailer for Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds that debuted on Entertainment Tonight (ET). It's a cam job from a TV but you get the idea. I think it looks like it's going to be great. As soon as I find a better quality version I will get it posted (Watch this quick in case it gets yanked by the studios).

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Inglourious Basterds (Yes Bastards is apparantly meant to spelt that way)

The poster could well be a fake since Tarantino spells it Inglourious Basterds but it looks good. Below is a press release for the movie. I'm really looking forward to his movie.

Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds began principal photography last week on location in Germany. The ensemble cast of Inglourious Basterds includes Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Brühl, 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, Sönke Möhring, Michael Fassbender, Mike Myers, Rod Taylor, Denis Menochet and Cloris Leachman.

Inglourious Basterds reunites Tarantino with Academy Award-nominated editor Sally Menke, Academy Award-winning director of photography Bob Richardson, and production designer David Wasco. Joining Tarantino for the first time is Academy Award-nominated costume designer Anna Sheppard.

Academy Award-nominee Lawrence Bender is producing Inglourious Basterds. Erica Steinberg and Lloyd Phillips, and Bob and Harvey Weinstein are the film's executive producers. The co-producers are Charlie Woebcken, Christoph Fisser and Henning Molfenter. Pilar Savone is the associate producer.

The Weinstein Company and Universal Pictures, through its newly formed International Studio, are co-financing and co-presenting the film with TWC handling domestic distribution and Universal handling international distribution. The two companies are partners on the project.

Zehnte Babelsberg Film, a subsidiary of Studio Babelsberg AG, is producing Inglourious Basterds. The film will shoot at Studio Babelsberg as well as in Berlin, Saxony and Paris.

Inglourious Basterds 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 be released worldwide in 2009.

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Eli Roth to be an Inglorious Bastard

This from First Showing.

Variety confirms that filmmaker Eli Roth, of Hostel infamy, is in talks to join Quentin Tarantino's WWII epic Inglorious Bastards. I don't think anyone saw this one coming! Roth will play Sgt. Donnie Donowitz, nicknamed "The Bear Jew", one of the rogue Jewish-American soldiers that goes on a suicide mission hunting Nazi's in France. His trademark is smashing Nazi skulls with a baseball bat - something which should be quite exciting to see Roth doing. Additionally, the rumor that popped up about Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio also ends up being only half true - Pitt is still in talks to play Lt. Aldo Raine aka "Aldo the Apache", however Tarantino passed on DiCaprio in favor of a German actor.

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RZA Martial Arts movie and Vin Diesel Sci Fi

A couple of weeks ago, Billboard (via /Film) reported the following:RZA has developed a martial arts film with Hollywood pal Eli Roth called "The Man with the Iron Fist," which he says has "the blessing" of his "teacher," Quentin Tarantino, and he collaborated with Hans Zimmer on the score for the forthcoming Vin Diesel science fiction film "Babylon A.D."

CHUD followed-up with Eli Roth to find out what this is all about. Turns out, RZA is not only writing the film, he's also directing! "This movie will have everything martial arts fans could want, combined with RZA's superb musical talent," said Roth. You can read more of what Roth had to say here.

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