Brad Pitt + Quentin Tarantino

Category: Movies    Tags: Odyssey, Brad Pitt, George Miller

Brad Pitt Gets in Gear for Tarantino War Movie

By Jessica Haralson Originally posted Monday October 20, 2008 03:10 PM EDT

Brad Pitt in Inglourius Basterds Photo by: Francois Duhamel / The Weinstein Company

In Brad Pitt’s upcoming World War II movie, he plays a vengeance-seeking Nazi hunter – and he looks the part.

The first portrait of Pitt’s character, Lt. Aldo Raine, in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds (yes, the misspelling is intentional), was released Monday. Clad in tough-looking fighter gear, Pitt portrays the leader of the "Basterds," a group of Jewish-American soldiers who scalp and brutally kill Nazis.

Pitt’s character is described on Tarantino.info as not "your Warner Brothers 1950's WW2 hero … this is a hillbilly straight from the mountains of Tennessee."

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Pitt In Mind For Moneyball Adaptation

Category: Movies    Tags: Odyssey, Brad Pitt, George Miller

Pitt In Mind For Moneyball Adaptation
Columbia pitch Zaillian/ Frankel project
Source: Variety

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Brad Pitt has been lined up for talks with Columbia on the starring role in an adaptation of Michael Lewis’ non-fiction bestseller: "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game." Steve Zaillian (American Gangster, Gangs of New York) has been brought in to write the screenplay about a baseball club general manager who invents a way of using computer based analysis to draft players on the cheap. And David Frankel (The Devil Wears Prada, Marley...

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