Visiting Jameson Dublin International Film Festival last weekend, Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Fremaux told Reel News that he’s now in “the pragmatic first stage of selection” for the event in May, and that he has hundreds of movies to see before the line-up is announced in late April.
Fremaux said it's too early to tell if Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterdswill be ready in time for its world premiere at Cannes. Tarantino, who won the festival's Palme d'Or for Pulp Fiction, is such a fan of Cannes that he has attended the event even when he hasn't had a new film on show.
"You haven't seen war until you've seen it through the eyes of Quentin Tarantino," declares the first trailer for Inglourious Basterds, which stars Brad Pitt as the leader of a platoon hunting Nazis in occupied France. Irish actor Michael Fassbender, in Dublin last weekend to collect two Ifta awards, plays one of the principal protagonists, Archie Hickox, who's described in the script as "a snappy and handsome British lieutenant and movie buff".
The cast also includes Mike Myers, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Brühl, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Maggie Cheung, Cloris Leachman and, as Winston Churchill, veteran Australian tough guy Rod Taylor.
Inglourious Basterdsis scheduled for release here and in the UK and the US on August 21st.
