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August 08, 2008


Yesterday, IGN reported via The Hollywood Reporter that Brad Pitt had officially signed on to play the lead role in Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards.

But according to Variety, several other key roles are also in the process of being filled -- this time by the likes of Simon Pegg, Nastassja Kinski, and David Krumholtz.

Pitt is set to play a Tennessee hillbilly who puts together a group of Jewish-American soldiers to attack Nazis during WWII. Pegg (whom audiences previously saw in Edgar Wright's Hot Fuzz, as well as the romantic comedy Run Fat Boy Run) might play a British lieutenant, while Krumholtz would join the previously-announced Eli Roth and B.J. Novak as another one of Pitt's foot soldiers.

Kinski is in talks for one of the film's very few female roles, a German movie queen.

Tarantino's film borrows its title from Enzo Castellari's 1970s war film of the same name, but uses it as a jumping off point to explore his own love of exploitation and war movies.