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Now Is The Time When Mike Myers Joins Tarantino's INGLORIOUS BASTARDS!!
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Mike Myers, who got famous playing Teutonic "Sprockets" host Dieter on "Saturday Night Live," has switched sides, enlisting as a man determined to visit death upon Germans in Quentin Tarantino's "Inglorious Bastards."
He will appear in one scene, as the British commander who assigns fellow officer Archie Hicox to help American lieutenant Aldo Raines' squad of angry, vengeful Jews kill awful Nazis.
He's the third cast member confirmed for the World War II epic, following Brad Pitt and Eli Roth. Others reportedly being sought for key roles include Nastassja Kinski, B.J. Novak, Simon Pegg and David Krumholtz.
Find all of Variety’s story on the matter here.
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lol at this movie
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scottish, motherfucker, DO YOU SPEAK IT?!
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variety story links to your email.
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that is all
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that makes sense...<p>next look for Michael Caine in the new Scary Movie installment...
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Lookatha size of that boy's heed!
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This is a fucking joke right, I actually laughed out loud at the title assuming this would be a prank. Jesus Christ....
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ON THEIR HEADS!
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Can't wait to see who's next.
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Haulin' that gargantuan CRANIUM about!
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Mike Myers...certified box office gold. Not really.
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Who cares except a sad Dana Carvey.
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Now is the part of Sprockets where we dance!
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Even though most of us want to.
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"Hitler, YOU"RE the one with the candy shell on your head"
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"Neville, neville...how about a little something for the effort?"
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...will get him nom'ed like Dreamgirls only to lose it for also appearing in Norbit 2.
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And I'm spent. Whatever happened to him, anyway?
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...all they do is give a bit of exposition about meeting up with Brad Pitt's character and bullshit about German cinema. So if the movie runs long this could end up on the editing room floor.<p>On the other hand, nearly half the script is full of these useless scenes, so don't hold your breath.
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Why not hire the guy who played BASIL EXPOSITION in all the Austin Powers flicks too?!?
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the more I like it. Sweet T might be hugely overrated, but I can't deny his popcorn factor. This flick sounds like it's shaping up.
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I know, what a drag
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What the fuck is this movie going to be, man?
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thanks for giving that gag up people. It got so old that I don't mind trying to bring back into style
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Mr. Myers career needs resuscitation
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I believe
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Maybe this is Tarantino's way of getting us to root for the Nazi's. Kind of Starship Trooperesque. How's his relationship with the Weinstiens these days? I don't ask either of them cause it might be weird, but I'm not crazy about gossiping.
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QT hit the nail on the head with Eli Roth, dropped the ball on pretty boy Pitt but bounces back on form with the daddy of english accents! BRILLIANT! Get me Ira Newborn for the music and I'll pre book my flippin ticket TONIGHT!
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How come I keep hearing that shit? Does anybodyin actually think that?
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Aug. 14, 2008, 9:20 p.m. CST
This casting is the EXACT same as Dan Aykroyd in...
by Reynard Muldrake
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom...though sounds like we're gonna get more up close screenage of Dieter. I bet he uses Austin Powers' bad teeth too...
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Bill Hader? Val Kilmer? Woody Allen? Ving Rhames?
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-- to lead in Tarantino's follow-up to Reservoir Dogs. Sounds ridiculous too, no? Fucking RELAX.
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He sucks now...
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Bringing you the Weekly War Update
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He also slid Ted Danson into Saving Private Ryan. Nathan Fillion was also the best thing in that movie, word on that. No Fillion in SPR, no Firefly. Finally, how is this any different from every famous actor and "weren't they in that...?" actor in 'The Thin Red Line', best war movie of past 15 years - all that one guy from Scream had going for him at the time was being some big doofus bad guy in Scream and look what Malick did with him...
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Now this is promising news.
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His self absorbed humor (Wonderfully parodied in Tropic Thunder) has reached the audiences limit, and he needs to make some changes to save his career.
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Who said Julia Sweeney?
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Every single one of his movies just feels so fresh and new even if they're complete rip-offs of another movie. Not many well known directors can still surprise their core audience. Today is a good day.
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Man, I've been defending QT on this since the beginning, but WTF? What's next, Chris Tucker for Hitler?
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So I can get an idea of what the fuck Quentin is doing. Thanks.
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Myers..it could work. He needs another "54" role. And by that, I mean a role where he is not trying to be funny.
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I never thought I would see Mike Myers name in the same sentence as QTs. Mr. Tarantino, WTF??
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I'm going to venture off topic slightly: I certainly do not count The Thin Red Line as the best war movie of the last 15 years. I don't even class it as a war movie. A war movie shows .... um, war, unflinchingly so. It doesn't have to have include epic SPR violence but it does have to have a certain amount of chaos, dread, audience involvement.... TTRL was too placcid to be engaging on that level. Platoon, Saving Private Ryan, Full Metal Jacket. All of these approached war in different ways successfully. All unfliching in their own ways, engaging, thrilling, scary, sad. TTRL had the sad and some of the scary but the actual war scenes felt so fake. What was with a platoon of men with automatic weapons not being able to take that hill but Sean Penn and his six shooters has no problem?!<P> Hell, Toy Soldiers was a better war movie in my book.
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...I think Mike Myers is great and even though I didn't go watch The Guru I'm sure I'll enjoy it on DVD.
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You got to be fucking kidding me.
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Sure it was a caricature but it had dramatic elements and he was solid.
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Seriously! What would they do without Nazis? No one would ever make a movie.<p> And did anyone else see the German reaction to this flick? I don't think it will play too well in that country.
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But since he only has a bit part it shouldn't be that distracting.<br><Br> I love the crazy 70's disaster movie type casting QT is going for here.
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Aug. 14, 2008, 9:59 p.m. CST
We won't get the "Whole Bloody Affair" version of Kill Bill...
by Nasty In The Pasty
...until RIGHT before Inglorious Bastards comes out probably in late '09. Then again, I thought the same thing about Grindhouse. And as for Myers...I've heard good things about his dramatic performance in 54, and he'll be limited to one scene, so I don't see what everyone's bitching about. Half the fun of a Tarantino movie is his offbeat casting choices that 9 times out of 10 end up paying off like gangbusters. I mean, David Carradine in Kill Bill was pure kitsch casting, but he delivered a MAGNIFICENT performance, creating one of the most iconic screen villains in recent memory.
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you don't think Dash Mihok was in "Scream", do you?<p>who else are you talking about?
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Neither do I
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I'd actually like to see the dude in more than one scene, but that's coming from a guy who a) saw "54" and b) thought that Mike Myers was the best thing about "54." <P>"A gun rack? I don't even own 'a' gun, let alone many guns, thereby necessitating an entire rack."
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can't wait to see this unfold.
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i was thinking of romeo and juliet, the 'other' teen-pop-phenomenom-style-fest of 1996. <p> also i'll take that back about TTRL as 'war' movie, by those criteria i'd say...BRAVEHEART! ahhaha. <p> but seriously, what IS up with this script? i guess we'll never hear on AICN since Harry just posted after reading it that no one should read it and just be surprised...? so when he gets invited to set like on kill bill ... what will be the cool news?!?!?!
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Sweaty, smelly balls. That's what this news is. God I hate Mike Myers.
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oh shit. wait...
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instead of an English one. Talentless twat.
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I'm going to buck the trend and say that this will be a very positive move for Meyers. We ALL know how Tarantino can pick just the right actor for the role. I say trust in the QT and know that he chose Meyers for a very GOOD reason.
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...or the writer/director who made the fine "Pulp Fiction," but this casting news makes me think the QT career might be starting to resemble that of another director who liked to employ high-energy visual hijinks with a lot of stunt casting...and really, would a remake of "The Cannonball Run" be so out of place for the guy who's about to remake "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" right after he remakes "Inglorious Bastards"...? Oh, I'll buy my ticket. But I couldn't help but think this sounded so...Needhamesque...
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How he possibly ruin the whole movie? Of course, IG does need Sophie Marceau or Gabrielle Anwar.
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Hitler was a brilliant public speaker and was loved by his own people! Sure he was a psychopathic scumbag, but at least he wasn't a drooling, pig-eyed, fuck-up, coke-snorting daddy's boy.
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Really really liked the script, but it's like he's purposefully casting people that will take you out of the movie just by seeing them... eli roth and mike myers... I smell powerhouse.
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Aug. 14, 2008, 10:37 p.m. CST
MIKE MYERS and his 'hilarious' accents can fuck right off
by judge dredds fresh undies
im so tired of that fucking prick trying to sound scottish.
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Tarantino dun los' his mind.
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I mean, that's like him casting Kathy Griffin in one scene for Pulp Fiction.. wow what an ass.
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But seriously, I'm liking the casting so far just because everyone seems to come from vastly different performance backgrounds.
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Aug. 14, 2008, 10:57 p.m. CST
tarantino is talented, but he cant be serious with this shit
by Stengah
its quite simple, you get oranges and you shove that orange in an asshole and fuck the pussy. You get a shit cast, and you just get a shit sandwhich
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Sam Jackson, etc....?
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Pulp Fiction was made in 1993, when Kathy Griffin wasn't exactly a house hold name.
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Shark Jumping
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going to defend this monstrosity that's coming? B/c everyone who frequents this site knows there is certain people the writers at aintitcool don't ever say a bad thing about. i.e. QT for starters then Robert Rodriquez, Peter Jackson, and the newest kissass has become Judd Apatow and his cohorts, Del Toro, and another new one is JJ Adrams. When they should be douling over PTA, Fincher, David O. Russell, Spike Jonze, Alexander Payne and the like. when the former can do no wrong it's hurts the credibility and most see completely see through this facade. Yes they've done good work and I know they give you behind the scenes bullshit to buy you guys but in your articles they'are beyond criticism and that's bullshit.
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member when it comes to this film? Normally it's Harry or Mori that gets to spill the beans on such a loved figure on the people that work here. I think I know why they're handing off the reports to herc, who 99 out of 100 times writes up about tv and not film. It's b/c none of them are excited about how this is coming together but don't want to piss off their god. Or have to write up an opinion on this clusterfuck! Believe that.
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are fucking morons. I have read the script, I am intrigued and I am seeing this no matter what. That being said, this casting is fucking great. Joe Pesci playing Landa! George Lucas as Shosanna! What the hell is next? I love it.
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I haven't read the script but I think Tarantino deserves a little lee-way here folks. Sure, no director is 100% but hasn't Tarantino been pretty damn close so far?? And for gods sake, this movie hasn't even finished casting let alone shot footage. This isn't Uwe Boll for fuck's sake.
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...show me how vile and dickish the people who visit this site are. This guy is a prick, that guy is a fuck. All of you sound like 8 year olds. It's not like Harry helps out much when he does the exact same thing in his reviews. If you don't like a decision a director makes... well, he's just a fuck I guess. It's disgusting how people just enjoy the whole process of shitting on things. It's like you're whipping your pants off, taking a squat and holding a mirror up to your ass so you can witness the shit come right out and you enjoy every second of it.
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its just the way it is.
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Aug. 15, 2008, 12:50 a.m. CST
it's funny to see everyone look forward to this movie so much
by Rupee88
if it would have been the follow up to Pulp Fiction, it might be good but this is the follow up to Death Proof. Tarantino was a genius but he is old and tired and this Mike Myers casting is a joke.
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None of you ever saw his serious films? He is much more than just a comedian, and his accents are fine too: You got to trust Tarantino, when has he ever chosen the wrong actor?
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Aug. 15, 2008, 1:07 a.m. CST
I don't get the kneejerk reactions, Myers is a good actor
by SpencerTrilby
He made a lot of lame movies recently, I admit and acknowledge how this can cast a big doubt upon his next pet project, be it Austin 4, or The Cat in the hat 2, or whatever. <p> But here he seems to be just an actor, only a small part of what sounds like an original twist at the WWII epic. He's not the star, has no leverage on the script, and probably won't play Fat Bastard's father. So, I for one am looking forward to this. The guy can act, really.
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WTF are you on about? This is going to be a pile of shit. Tarantino disappeared up his own backside after Jackie Brown and has not been sighted since. Can you guys on this site quit sucking his limp dick.
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Thats the good thing about Quentin. He always casts outside the box. Very interesting cast who will give performances beyond the usual hollywerid crap. Kudos to Tarantino.
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View from the Top, the smash love guru, a bunch of cartoons, Waynes world holds up so well these days, his only departure was 54 where he plays a fag. The guy is a f'ing joke. Get you head out of you ass's. Unless we have a bunch of Canadians on here making excuses for the douche bag. Forget the fact that the dude is a total diva even makes matters laughable. Ask some of David Letterman's staff about his behavior.
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But I don't mind Meyer's casting. It's Roth's casting that spells doom to me.
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Aug. 15, 2008, 2:54 a.m. CST
wesley snipes is a black-jew in warsaw fightin JCVD as hitler!
by ironic_name
in warsaw symphony.. coming to aicn as a webcomic, soon!
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i think i heard him say that once in an interview.
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He was brilliant in Pulp Fiction. So far I'm not convinced by the casting at all. Myers is barely acceptable for a cameo but Simon Pegg should be nowhere near this movie. And forget about Tim Roth, he's always been one of the weaker actors in any Tarantino film he's been in, including Four Rooms. Where are the likes of Gary Oldman, Sean Penn, Javier Bardem?
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What this movie needed is Myers mugging for the camera and overacting...as usual...while he tries and fails to get a foreign accent right...as usual.
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...Why fucking bother. Kinski is a good choice...everyone else...and this script? I just don't care. I hope something random or bizare happens on the set, to drastically alter the heading of this film.
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...when Mickey Rourke turned down the lead in Death Proof, and B.J Novak was in "negotiations." What's next? Cory Feldman demanding final cut?
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you are a cocksucker. Read what you wrote closely. Yes those are some great directors so of course they are going to get love on this site. You want them to give shout outs to McGee, Boll, Singer, Paul Anderson and other shitty directors instead? You are the quintessential douchbag that likes to troll talkbacks. http://tinyurl.com/pv8do
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Aug. 15, 2008, 9:47 a.m. CST
Zeke25:17, Deathproff got great reviews...
by waitingimpatientlyforingloriousbastards
BTW, this is exactly the kind of casting we should have been expecting. This will be another career rejuvenation, courtesy of Mr. Tarantino. Brilliant.
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Tarantino is beyond retarded.
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Aug. 15, 2008, 11:14 a.m. CST
DOES BRAD PITT KNOW HE'S STANDING IN A PILE OF MANURE?
by BringingSexyBack
Someone clue him in, please.
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Aug. 15, 2008, 11:24 a.m. CST
Deathproff! when xavier puts a chaingun on his wheelchair..
by ironic_name
you will know Deathproff!
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I kinda love that QT's unofficial job is saving the careers of washed up actors. Hate all you want, but I think QT is great.
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And if you read what I said certain directors get a free pass and others don't get the love they should. Go back and reread what I said about PTA, Spike Jonze, Fincher, David O. Russell and Alexander Payne.
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Went a similar route with big name stars doing cameos...
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I kid.
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the Wide Awake club.
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