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JA from
MNPP here, wishing everybody a very happy
Basterds Day! It's like Bastille Day, only...
terd-ier? (Ugh, my apologies, I'm on cold medicine here.) Anyway I am taking this opportunity to take a look at seven members of QT's
Inglourious cast and see what they're up to next (besides that
Inglourious sequel/prequel that Quentin will talk about for years but never make). But the cast's upcoming projects here are of distinct interest since everybody knows that once you've starred in a Tarantino picture, your career just explodes straight into the stratosphere! (Example A - Pam Grier. Oh... wait.
Riiiight. Well at least she got to play a decapitated lesbian in
John Carpenter's worst movie!) So let's see what these folks have got lined up for the future...
Brad Pitt - Lt. Aldo Raine - Brad Pitt, being Brad effing Pitt, hasn't really got a shortage of projects in the pipeline. In fact he's got six projects listed as being in some sort of production - ranging from Terrence Malick's
The Tree of Life, purportedly out sometime this year (though they said the same thing last year), to
Moneyball, a movie about the fascinating revolution in baseball drafting through statistical analysis (yeah I fell asleep already too). And after that there are 20 more projects in some form of development (A Steve McQueen biopic? Sure, why the heck not!).
Mélanie Laurent - Shoshanna Dreyfus - I can't imagine her plate won't pile up with credits in a post-
Basterds world - although QT's magic touch seems to work longer stronger magic on the fellas (see: John Travolta's woefully extended career versus Uma Thurman's) - but for now she's starring opposite Jean Reno in a French film called
La rafle (
The Round Up) about a shameful event in French history where their government handed 13,000 over to the Nazis, and
Beginners, a film by the director of
Thumbsucker, starring Laurent and Ewan McGregor which has already sparked
gossipy gossip when she dared be seen (heavens no!) walking around with married Ewan in (no!) public. Da noive!
Christoph Waltz - Col. Hans Landa - First step, Oscar glory! After that he's nemesis'ing Seth Rogen in
The Green Hornet for Michel Gondry and abusing Reese Witherspoon in the circus in
Water For Elephants, aka that book that I saw everyone reading on the subway a couple of years ago. Anyway it sounds like discovering his inner demon's good for his career, then. And for cinema!
Eli Roth - Sgt. Donny Donowitz - Y'all are just dying to hear what The Bear Jew's up to next, aren't ya? I knew it! Well even though he's now the proud owner of a SAG award, after a brief side-trip to
cameo-ville in Alexander Aja's remake of
Piranha it appears he'll be sticking behind the screen for a bit (when he isn't
jerking off with his fans on Twitter, natch) - he's been
talking up a big science-fiction project called
Endangered Species as well as a long-form version of his
Grindhouse trailer
Thanksgiving for ages now. We'll see what comes of any of it. With bated breath I'm sure!
Michael Fassbender - Lt. Archie Hicox - Next up for the sexy Mr. Michael Fassbender is a role as a sexy Roman soldier in
Centurion by the director of
The Descent, which is out sometime this Spring. Then he'll be
a sexy villain tormenting Josh Brolin in
Jonah Hex this Summer. Then a sexy commando in Soderbergh's
Knockout, then a sexy Rochester in an adaptation of
Jane Eyre by the director of
Sin Nombre... and then many more sexy somethings for the rest of his sexy life.
Sexy,
sexy. Exhaustively so.
Diane Kruger - Bridget von Hammersmarck - Perhaps like most of us I just hadn't been paying attention to anything Kruger did before she wowed us in
Basterds, because I
had been paying
some attention to the film
Mr. Nobody for a bit - it stars Sarah Polley and Sarah Polley is one of my (many) weaknesses - and I'd never even noticed that Kruger was even in it. But now that I see she is in it this makes me happy! Because she's suddenly revealed herself to be awesome. She's also currently filming
a movie with the director of
Orphan, which also makes this here geek squeal. Esther 2.0!
Daniel Brühl - Pvt. Fredrick Zoller - Adorable Danny Brühl is currently filming opposite Charlotte Rampling and
Pushing Daisies' Anna Friel in Jon Amiel's new film
The Angel Makers, described as a dark comedy about British soldiers returning from war to find German POWs having taken over their homes (and beds, and ladies in said beds). Co-starring in this movie are beautiful Tom Tykwer-alums Benno Fuhrmann and Moritz Bleibtreu...
If I hadn't done this post I don't know when I would've heard about this, and everything about this cast is exquisite catnip to me, so I am
very happy to have discovered this thing's existence. Thanks, Danny!
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JA from MNPP here, with a fun factoid for y'all: Seventeen years ago on this day Lorena Bobbitt took matters into her own hands... and by "matters" I mean "her husband's penis" and by "her own hands" I mean "her own hands holding a carving knife." The rest is infamous tabloid history - the throwing of the severed member out a car window, the trial, the adult film Frankenpenis... sordid, so very sordid.
