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THE OFFICE’s B.J. Novak Says He’s Officially One Of Tarantino’s BASTARDS!!
I am – Hercules!!
David Krumholtz and Simon Pegg may have fallen out of talks to join Quentin Tarantino’s World War II epic “Inglorious Bastards,” but “The Office” star B.J. Novak says he signed a contract to appear in the movie Friday -- according to one fan who says he spoke to Novak following a weekend stand-up show in St. Louis.
“LBJeff,” a new and untested spy, reports:
Whats up Herc,
Long time reader, first time writer. Anyways, I go to Washington University in St. Louis and last night BJ Novak came to do some stand up comedy. After the show I was fortunate enough to talk with him and ask a few questions.
He confirmed that he will be in QT's Inglorious Bastards, and that he had just signed the contract on Friday.
I asked him what that meant for Ryan on the Office and he said that Ryan would be in the first episode and we will know what happens to him.
He also said Toby will be back for that first episode and it will be "very funny."
I asked him about the spin-off and he said that if the improv group who opened for him went on stage to act out an Office spin-off, they would probably be closer than what they know right now. As you know, it will star Amy Pohler and he also said that it will probably not be a spin-off in the traditional sense, which was apparently all he knew or could say.
Surprisingly, to me at least, he got a great turnout of about 2,500 students and everyone seemed to have a good time. If you see any pictures of him online using a frog puppet, it was not photoshopped, but part of the act. He commented on how people would think that it was weird for him to have a puppet because the office is a "smart show."
He seemed genuinely excited for the next season of the Office as well as for IB, which he said starts shooting in October. He came off as a very smart and genuine guy and I hope that he kills in the movie. Oh, and when he asked where I saw that he was in talks for IB I said AICN and he laughed. I'll leave you with one of his many funny jokes:
Battered women?
Sounds delicious...but that doesn't make it right.
If the report can be trusted, Novak joins Brad Pitt, Mike Myers and Eli Roth among actors confirmed for the cast.
“Bastards” follows a squad of angry, vengeful Jews assigned to infiltrate Axis-occupied Europe and kill as many Nazis as possible.
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Mike Myers in career resurrection anyone?
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Now all we need is eddie Murphy...please...
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and extra crispy.
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His first names are Blow Job? Sweet!
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Wasn't he gyno #3 in Knocked Up? Novak's a talented guy (written some of the best Office's), nice to see him do well.
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And Yawn again...
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I've been using that joke for years. "I like my fish the way I like my women..."
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Whoooooooooooooooooo gives a sideways fuck about every little casting detail of this movie? Other than QT and his rosey smart smellers, of course.
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Aug. 25, 2008, 12:49 p.m. CST
Another pussy joins Brad Pitt's crew to replace the pussies that
by harosa
Like I said before, where are these supposed bad asses that are going to be killing Nazis?
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Ground up and in the freezer.
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1. Reservoir Dogs 2. Pulp Fiction 3. Jackie Brown 4. Kill Bill 2 5. Kill Bill 6. Death Proof. So he's pretty much getting worse with every movie. Death Proof is the only real below-par movie he's made though, despite Kurt Russell being cool.
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Aug. 25, 2008, 12:58 p.m. CST
OFFICIAL: Carrot Top, Dustin Diamond added to BASTARDS list!
by NiceGuyEddie19
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When the hell did he get cast?
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I remember another stand up comedian doing that joke like 4 years ago. It was on a comedy central special. Anyone remember who?
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Will AICN sponsor Vern on a trip to the Miley Cyrus birthday bash? We need someone like him there, to give us all the gory details of her birthday bukkake!
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it's like some pathetic guy who finally finds a woman who will talk to him; who then proceeds to drive everyone nuts talking about her nonstop. How about one big talkback when everything is finalized and production begins?
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Didn't I see an item on Foxnews reporting that he had an inoperable brain tumor?
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Will you let us know when every other news source confirms what we already know?
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And the script is utter shit.
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Also, I thought Brad Pitt insisted on a "no Mike Meyers" clause in his contracts.
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Novak's stand up routine sounds about as interesting as this film...
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When it became Americanized, it was still kinda funny... at first. Now its just bad. Tired, wrong, bad, too obvious, essentially slapstick.
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Guys like Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson...ya know guys that actually COULD kick your ass during their prime, who actually had done something daring or potentially fatal prior to becoming an actor. Pitt as about as meanacing as a Teacup Poodle guard dog.
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Firstly, because its about Jews kicking the crap outta Nazi scum. Secondly because there is already a movie called Inglorious Bastards. Third because it would be an awesome title.
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Is there any part of the original film in this remake or is QT just using the name?
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True, there are similarities. But that's always been what Tarantino does. I haven't seen Blackbook, but you've inspired me to rent it, now. As far as QT's INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS script, I think it's his best script since Pulp Fiction. Tarantino has the gift of taking old and worn cinematic tropes and making them fresh and relevant again, just as he did with Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction. Not to mention the exhilaration and invention he brings to the screen with his brilliant, brilliant voice. How do you not fall in love with the opening scene where Landa grills the French farmer on the whereabouts of the missing Dreyfuss family, who happen to be hiding beneath the farmer's floorboards? I honestly think it's the best opening of any script I've read in the last five years. How do you not love (and loathe) Landa at the end of this scene, when he muses to his quizzical driver that perhaps Shosanna, who's just managed to escape by a hair's breadth, will somehow find her way to America where she will eventually rise up to be elected president of the United States. Just imagine the kind of synaptic firing it took to reach that moment and line of dialogue after opening on a lonely dairy farm in Nazi-occupied France. Give credit to where credit is due: Quentin Tarantino has one of the most unique voices in the history of cinema. Btw, I think QT's three best films are Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill & Reservoir Dogs. I think one of his best scripts is True Romance.
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In what could have been a return to form to the likes of Reservoir Dogs (his best in my opinion) I'm beginning to get the drift that the concept of his men on a mission movie has been completely ass raped and the focus will instead be on some terrible female actress's performance reading some of Quentin's shitty girl dialogue. I'm sure he had the best intentions when he started writing the script, but if there was ever an excuse to focus on badasses doing bad ass shit this was it and Tarantino apparently couldn't hack it. I haven't read the script and I won't because I can't expect genius from the man anymore, the best I could hope for is an entertaining one shot at the theatre, but if someone who has read the script and also cringes at the dialogue and soul of the "characters" in Death Proof and the female dialogue in Kill Bill could please confirm my worst nightmares, has Quentin's drift continued and will his bitch fixation ruin this movie and will I puke when I see it?
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"Tarantino has the gift of taking old and worn cinematic tropes and making them fresh and relevant again" sounds like a nice way of borrowing ideas. Black Book is from 2 years ago so not exactly old and worn. And even "with his brilliant, brilliant voice" it still doesn't sound like anything fresh. Not saying I won't enjoy it, but you make it sound like the film and the earth itself were created with the sole purpose of giving QT a forum to bless us with his inhuman talents...
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STEALING two year old ideas under the guise of artistic "borrowing" isn't "brilliant", it is plagiarism.
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This is being reported on Rotten Tomatoes and we need some real geek journalists to find out the real scoop... AICN?
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now they make shit like "p.s. I love you" as a follow up to 300...
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And there's not really any brilliance there. Just a lot of misspelling and a lot of misuse of words. I neither love or loathe Landa, as it seems he's full of shit. He's not ruthless, he's not benevolent, he's just kind of a witlessly verbose quasi-philosopher. He's apparently ambivalent in his mission, where [SPOILER] he lets Shoshana escape into the woods, claiming there's a difference between letting a fifteen year old girl escape and shooting said girl in the back. I mean, cold blooded is cold blooded, isn't it? He has his soldiers mow down Shoshana's family after making a big show of surprising them, but then balks at the prospect of shooting the girl in the back?
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But more importantly! Is Dolly Parton or not?!?
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to play a character nicknamed "The Bear Jew?"
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'd love to see him in it
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conflicting schedules with another film he's making.
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Reservoir Dogs had the ear scene and random gunshotw wounds, it worked. Pulp Fiction had the classic Marvin face shot scene and random gunshot wounds. Kill Bill and Death Proof were modern renditions of their particular genres, but can we expect more of this blatant graphic violence peppered with tired dialogue from a once great screenwriter? I'm not impressed.
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Or is he in too. Fat German maybe?
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I didn't like the British version because it was too British. And not nearly as funny. British people doing decidely British "funny" things = unfunny.
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What is this, Princess Bride? It's a sucky device in this instance.
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Q- So have you seen Inglorious Bastards? A- I can't say if I did or didn't see it but let me say what I may or may not have seen will blow your balls away, but I can't say so yet but be prepared to hold your balls tightly when the movie comes out.
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Lots of exposition. I thought this film was going to be about the Bastards? It was a struggle to get through this...
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...when he's officially announced...<p>AND IT'S BJ NOVAK!!!!! This isn't Pitt or Cruise or Carell or even Rainn Wilson. BJ FUCKING NOVAK. Seriously. <p>Overkill.
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You could have just used the cast of Deadwood...<p>
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and it's mostly talking. Now, I know Tarantino is supposed to be known for his dialogue, none of it especially crackles. Ninety pages roughly equals ninety minutes, so we're going to get ninety minutes of setup? Where's Roger Avary when you need him?
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Seventy five pages left to go. Almost three hours? Groan. I'll finish it tonight after work and post my thoughts. Sure, I'm only a little halfway through, so it might pick up in the end of the second and in the third acts, but so far, it's a little boring. I don't get why so much of the second act is going to be "French New Wave Black and White." It seems to me that it's already boring with a lot of telling instead of showing and making this section B&W will only accentuate the tedium. Unless it's shot with some deep, interesting blacks and good use of grays and whites, I just don't know. Anyone know what Tarantino is going for, aside from some kind of ham-handed tribute to French New Wave?
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"Force", my friends, is violence: The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived!
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A much better title.
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Just announced-Woody Allen, Jackie Mason,Billy Crystal and Fyvush Finkel. Man, this movie will kick ass!!!
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They are hardly the focus of the film, for better or worse. And Pitt's Aldo seems like he has minimal screen time. I loved the script, but was surprised with the apparent lack of Bastards.
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Aug. 25, 2008, 6:10 p.m. CST
whats with all these visonaries and their script reviews
by slappy jones
fuck I hate script reviews. Let the film makers make their film you unimaginative bastards.
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Wondering if someone can help me out: Do you know of any other online script resources besides IMSDB.COM? While that's a decent collection, it doesn't include foreign films, or many indie films, etc. Can anyone recommend another site or anything? Thanks!
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You're right. I just found out literally 10 minutes ago that I am in this movie too!
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I meant "Kingdom, yadda yadda, skullfuck"
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just so you know.
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mike myers/?!!??! THE FUCK
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Aug. 25, 2008, 8:58 p.m. CST
so it went from Arnie, Sly, Bruce and Sandler to this?
by johnnyg korrupt
It went from the biggest fanboy pic of all time starring Arnie, Sly, Bruce, Sandler, Madsen, Roth to this? It got none of those guys....thats what made the pic legendary before its even shot. I can go with Pitt, coulda gone with Leo....but fucking BJ "blowjob" Novak? And he wanted Simon Pegg? fuck Pegg is up there on the annoying wanna smash his face in level with Seth Rogen
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I guess the script sucks ass if you say it does. Damn, I'm burning my copy tonight. I hope Quentin reads AICN, so he'll know how much his script sucks.
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I offer my own evaluation of the script and you shit the bed? What's wrong with you? What a little baby!
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Can anyone out there, a kind soul, point me in the direction of the script or otherwise advise me on hows I can get it?
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is a wonderful thing.
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of imagining Tarantino's voice speaking the words I'm reading. Now I can't stop.
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Really?
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The interrogation scene near the end is pretty good.
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I wonder if this script is even real.
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There. I had to get it out of my system...
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go to some of the faggy Batman/ Iron Man/Superman forums bulshit and fucking stay there.
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go to the IB forum on IMDB. You'll get it there in a sec.
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only it's Frank.
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I know you've been cheatin' on me.
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ordered a crack whore. And Germans love David Hasselhoff.
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I was initailly excited for this flick but now I am losing interest fast with each new actor that has been announced. I will give QT a chance, it is just that I am not that excited as I thought I would be.
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Aug. 26, 2008, 9:22 a.m. CST
ARE YOU *SURE* SLY, BRUCE AND ARNOLD WERE ATTACHED TO THIS AT ON
by BringingSexyBack
This is like being promised Prime Rib and getting a McRib instead. <p> Or groping the girl of your wet dreams and finding a cock in your hand. <p> You get the picture!!!!
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Dude, I've been there. But that's because she brought her boyfriend.
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Anybody realize the resemblance between Mike Myers joining the cast of Inglorious Bastards relating almost directly to the character Jack Black plays in Tropic Thunder? Good luck trying to resurrect your career Mike...
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any roles in this film, besides very short cameos, for Sly, Bruce or Arnold. I think people are really going to be disappointed in this film if they think they're getting some machinegun-toting, testoterone-filled Tarantino WW2 film. There's really not that much action.
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oh and also Tarantino's recent filmography = shit. This movie is being set up for disaster, the script was just laughably bad aswell. Bear Jew flinging a baseball bat = Tarantino at his most excessive. Brad Pitt should get smart and drop out of this turd. He has much better films coming out this year, he doesn't want that rep stained by this skid mark next year.
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How do I get him on this movie?
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Some douche from some shitty knockoff television show? Whoopie de do.
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...It really is black book lite. It's like the Fox network version of Black Book. I'll give credit where credit is due. Tarantino sat his ass down and watched a bucketload of movies while taking notes and had the audacity to steal whatever the fuck he liked. Most guys don't have the balls to be plagarists. QT, the Vanilla Ice of cinema. Except I like QT publically, not privately like Vanilla Ice.
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...That the script reads like black book lite. The finished films may be entirely different. Remember the Kill Bill script was an amazing piece of writing, that through the filming process became a pretty good/average set of films. This could be the exact opposite for all I know. Avergage piece of writing, somehow strained through filming into something fantastic. His rumoured casting wish list so directly contrasts the characters as written that this may be the case.
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In your whiny ass you fucking bitch. QT is More like Notorious B.I.G, the greatest rapper who ever done it, who proclaimed himself once as "The Hip Hop version of Nicky Tarantino".
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