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Tarantino’s ‘Basterds’ Gets August 2009 Release January 3, 2009 2:05 pm

Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in Inglourious Basterds, Movies, News.
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inglouriousbasterds-1309The Weinstein Company has announced that Quentin Tarantino’s next film, Inglourious Basterds, will hit theaters on August 21, 2009.  The date puts the film up against New Line’s Final Destination: Death Trip 3D and the Jeremy Piven (Entourage) comedy The Goods: The Don Ready Story.

Synopsis
Inglourious Basterds begins in German-occupied France, where Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema. Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution. Known to their enemy as “The Basterds,” Raine’s squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich. Fates converge under a cinema marquee, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own…

Source: Box Office Mojo

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