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Schrute Foil B.J. Novak Sought To Play The Puny Jewish-American Nazi Killer Utivich In INGLORIOUS BASTARDS!!
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B.J. Novak, writer-star of NBC's "The Office," is in talks to play Private Utivich, Aldo Raine's diminutive Jewish-American Nazi slayer, in Quentin Tarantino's World War II epic "Inglorious Bastards."
If he can work out the details, Novak will join "Hostel" writer-director Eli Roth, cast earlier this week as bat-brandishing Jewish-American sergeant Donnie Donowitz.
"Bastards" is about, among other things, a clandestine unit comprised of angry, vengeful Jews charged with killing as many Nazis as possible in German-occupied Europe.
On early seasons of "The Office," Novak's character Ryan was forced to contend with Dunder-Mifflin assistant regional manager Dwight Schrute, whose maternal grandparents were apparently Nazi war criminals. Shrute's request for the travel visa he would use to visit his 103-year-old Grandpa Manheim in Argentina was protested by the Shoah Foundation.
Read all of The Hollywood Reporter’s story on the matter here.
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A true piece of shit.
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But it looks pretty good!
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and your penis. Go QT, Go.
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I've heard rumors of some well known action stars having roles in this, I guess they'll be relegated to cameos. Is it a budget thing?
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Aug 06, 2008 11:13:58 PM CDT
Pineapple is fucking funny, don't listen to the haters
by irrelevntelefant
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..for Americans. They like this kind of................humor.
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I'm just not nearly as excited for this as Tarantino's past films. Probably because Death Proof turned out to be utter crap...
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Don't understand the hate. Definitely on the level of 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, and Super Bad.
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Overlong and fucking boring. And the Huey Lewis Song was flat.
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what roles in this flick are available for hulk hogan and bea arthur??
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Will someone tell Rainn Wilson his 15 minutes are going to be up after the first ten minutes of Rocker premieres. He got lucky with the office and is good on that, nothing else (save for his role in House of 1,000 before he was just playing Dwight in everything).
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to be filled with "MEGA" stars.... So far we have one huge star in Pitt, one supremely aweful director, and a secondary character from the only show on NBC people watch... Here's hoping QT gets his shit together on this one. I'm not impressed so far.
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rainn "one trick pony" wilson aint cast in this, it's the guy that plays ryan...
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although they do get a point for one of them being asian...
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theycdid it fictionally on the show, or they protested the show's storyline? Just curious.
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BOTH the guys in Harold and Kumar are Asian.
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And Brett Favre is a fuckin Jet. The world can go ahead and explode now.
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they think the other one is taliban...
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Wow, can't even get TIM Roth? After reading the subpar script (Inglorious Bastards?!?! They have ONE scene in the first 85 pages, the rest is about a Jewish girl planning revenge. Ugh.) I thought the only thing that could save it was a good cast. Good thing QT is good at rewriting history now, cause that's where his career and talent are.
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The Shoah Foundation protested fictionally, on the show. So, basically, either you have it bass ackwards or I suck at picking up on irony.
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Yeah I got that, I just hate Dwight and hope this happens to him more often.
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has actually written some of the best Office episodes. He scribed the "Sexual Harrasment" episode which is fuckin' hillarious. "Who has two thumbs and bones your mother. This guy!" He seems pretty one-dimensional as far as his acting go, but I could be wrong.
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I'm still in shock. He is TERRIBLE even in his one-note cameos. I really just don't understand. I'm probably biased b/c I think he's overrated as a writer/director... but seriously. I honestly don't think I can sit through his smirky mug, over-acting as he "channels rage."
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I thought the "Bear Jew" Donny Donowitz was a big motherfucker, and they cast Eli Roth?? Now some dude from the American version of a much better British comedy is gonna be Utvich?? Well, I liked the script so maybe it'll still rock. Gotta get Pitt and DiCaprio. To all you haters that don't like that idea, you will eat your words Ledger-style if and when it goes down. Leo as Col. Landa would FUCKING RULE! Oh, and fuck these Pineapple Express haters. You all fucking suck.
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Maybe it is about more than just the guys that call themselves the Bastards. I'm just going out on a limb here, and it's certainly possible that I could be totally wrong/talking directly out of my ass with the magic of fart-speak, but the title could have more to it. The script's title to me seems to refer to those who seek retribution through vengeance, and those who would take terrible action in order to attain that goal. Now when I say, "those who seek vengeance" of course I am referring to the squad of Jewish soldiers wanting vengeance on the Nazi party for their terrible crimes against the European Jewish community, but I am also referring to the French girl in the script who burns all those people to death in the theatre. Their actions are both inglorious, and really kind of makes them bastards too (hmmmm).Tarantino makes a point of making that German hero soldier seem like he's actually a pretty nice guy. However Shosanna is too blinded by her rage against the entire Nazi party that she still kills him anyway. In the bar, the German soldiers celebrating together are all very human and certainly do not seem evil. One Nazi is celebrating the birth of his son. This man's death reads as almost tragic in the script and really emphasizes the message Tarantino may or may not be implying: that taking a life is never glorious. It is tragic. This message really made me wonder if what the Bastards are doing is really righteous in any manner, or if they are really just as bad as the Nazis.Now I know most of you will probably just say I am looking into it too much, and the script really isn't that good. I personally think Tarantino has talent and the current Bastards script really deserves more insight than simply, "QT sucks balls and this movie is gonna blow bloated purple donkey dick!" In Kill Bill he showed us that nearly everyone has the capacity for evil. Pai Mei was one wicked fucker, Bill took vengeance and ruined the Bride's life forever, Budd who seemed pretty cool at first, mercilessly buried the Bride alive, the Bride separated a daughter from her mother at a very young age (Vernita Green), hell, even the little girl stepped on her gold fish. Perhaps this film is an extension of that theme of innate evil in all man.Okay I will chill out now. I originally began writing this because it bothered me that people were complaining that the "Bastards" weren't even in the script that much and I thought they may have missed the point. I'm just trying to give you guys something else to consider before you get all angry. I'm planning on seeing the movie regardless of odd casting decisions and I really hope it's better. However, (ahem) it really wouldn't hurt if the Bastards had some more play time on the screen in my opinion.
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I think a bunch of unrecognizable new people would be much better than people we are all sorta kinda familar with. Either go entirely with big names or entirely without them Brad Pitt is gonna look fucking weird marching around with Ryan from the Office and Eli Roth from...that one scene in Death Proof? Fuck!I gotta great idea QT. Steve Carell as Landa? Why not? It will be funny! HA! HA! HA! (Kungfuhustler retreats into the corner to cry to himself until he finally rocks his strained body into a shaky, sweaty, disturbed sleep.)
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IT was shit- he got a little pub from the previous season and dave us that terrible season last year...he sucks
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No matter what, it will still be cool to see Nazi-ass-kicking Tarantino style. But I would prefer if it were a diverse bunch instead of all Jews. That way it will be at least be a little more of an homage to the original (and to Dirty Dozen), and you could have the different personalities/backgrounds playing off each other. It's starting to sound like Defiance or Uprising or Schindler's List meets Kill Bill and Hostel. B.J. Novak is ok but Eli Roth is a douchebag.
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These aren't shoes... they're Blargens...
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...not so all-star. Much like when I read the screenplay, I was like "I waited all these years for this?!?"
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Cheech as Hitler? That might make this worth seeing.
QT is beginning to sound like the kid who claimed to have all the cool toys (the giant GI Joe aircraft carrier, or the Star Destroyer playset), but when you finally came over told you that some other friend had, um, "borrowed" them. -
Of course, the whole Aldo Raine character doesn't make any sense either. Is he supposed to be a Jew from Tennessee? But casting Pitt is one of those let's-throw-a-star-at-the-role moves like casting Robert Redford in the Graduate or Ryan O'Neill as Michael Corleone. In other words, it's something an idiot studio head would suggest 40 years ago, not a director who is supposed to be the best of his generation.
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. . . I wondered why such a boring as hell, flat character got so much spotlight and then was promoted to the exec level w/ even more screentime. At least he got a little more interesting when he started becoming a coked up prick.
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. . . they still have to get the badass black dude. My vote goes to Charlie Murphy, not Eddie.
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Roth ain't right for this or anything else for that matter. The only time I liked Eli Roth in anything is when he got shot in Southland Tales while taking a shit. He was terrible and extremely annoying in Deathproof. Novak might be good, but this is definitely not the movie Tarantino was talking about for years anymore. And yes the last season of The Office sucked.
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...your comment to pondscum was hilarious and sadly spot-on. My hope is that like Kill Bill, the shooting script will be an improvement over the draft that was out earlier but then Kill Bill was stocked with awesome actors.
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Whatever I like Eli Roth and B.J. Novak, as long as they are in front of the camera.
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Seems like only a matter of time. Maybe they can get all of the directors who can't act. We've already got Eli Roth.
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is great for wrapping up leftovers.
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Every single article on this movie progressively plummets this film into the realm of self-parody and spoofdom.
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IG is sounding about as good as Jerry Lewis' legendary folly. I really hope the local weathman gets cast next, or maybe the leave Britney alone person from Youtube. They will add to an already legendary cast. Maybe John Landis can play a helicopter pilot?
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This is going the opposite direction from the all-star tough guy bloodbath that Tarantino talked about making for the past decade.
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I definitely enjoyed reading it and definitely look forward to the film. I'm not familiar with this guy from the Office, so I can't comment on that. But I'm not too bothered by the Roth casting, since from what I read, it seems the role of Donnie doesn't need any amazing acting ability. He just needs to be able to swing a baseball bat well. And when Quentin was talking about getting all these big name stars for this movie, he was talking out of his ass. He never talked to anyone about doing it. But I thought that was obvious from the start.
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I think he's great, and an opportunity like this for him is wonderful.
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I ain't so hip on that slant.
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Way to go QT
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I remember a few years ago names like Stallone and Willis were being banded about but now we have Eli Roth and some dude from "The Office" Whoop de fuckin doo.
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As the "Bastards" considering they're only going to get a few minutes screen time
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this movie is already screwed. I've read this script and liked it a lot. One of the characters that I thought people would really dig was Donnie Donowitz. This guy is a bad ass with a bat, and helping his people in the neighborhood get revenge for the family and friends they might have lost to the Nazi. And Tarantino casts Eli Roth? Eli Roth is a douchebag okay people. His movies suck and he is possible the worlds WORST actor. I wouldn't even call him an actor cause that would be insulting actors around the world. I liked Death Proof. worst part about it? Eli Roth. the guys a joke. I don't know why Tarantino has such a hard on for this jack ass, but if I was Brad Pitt I would not want to share screen time with this no talent ass clown. With such a great script, I don't know why he wouldn't want to fill the film with great actors. What a downer!
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I guess this movie is going to turn Jews into Nazi's & have a german slaughter fest. This movie is going to BLOW! QT is an ass!
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Aug 07, 2008 12:20:26 PM CDT
I'm fine with B.J. , but not with Roth, unless it's Tim Roth...
by lanemyersclassic
...like my opinion matters. I am glad he is not going with all big name stars, but please no Eli Roth. I would rather see one of the cast of the Blair Witch Project than Eli Roth.
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This will be the title of the film when it is redubbed and released in Japan.
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Thanks for the compliment. What I should have said, however, instead of the Star Destroyer Playset, was the legendary Boba Fett with real firing rocket. I've heard several people claim that they either had one or saw one, but nobody did.
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