Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglorious Bastards” Script

Or as he calls it, “Inglorious Basterds.”

Yes, Quentin Tarantino does not know how to spell “bastards.” That is, if the purported script for his “in your face” World War II film Inglorious Bastards is the actual item and not a hoax. Lots of people are bad spellers, so it’s a forgivable offense if the overall script quality is as much crazy fun as those who have read it believe it to be. It apparently tells parallel stories of a guerrilla group of Allied soldiers striking terror behind enemy lines and a French Jewish girl named Shosanna who runs a movie house in Paris after surviving the murder of her family.

Rumor is that Tarantino is trying to get Brad Pitt for the film, and the likely role would seem to be Lt. Aldo Raine, a scarred-up Tennessee hillbilly who leads the Bastards. The script is described as over-the-top insane and “Kill Bill meets The Dirty Dozen meets Cinema Paradiso.” That sounds glorious.