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The trailer was revealed at Entertainment Tonight this week, it has provoked a lot of internet activity since.
Some Quentin's fans posted images shot on their TV of the ET auto promo teaser, Universal was fast to get them banned from youtube.

Inglourious Basterds is an upcoming ensemble war film/spaghetti western written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It has the largest cast of characters (with speaking roles) of any Tarantino film to date and is currently in oost production (film was shot in several locations, among them Germany and France. Tarantino plans to complete production of Inglourious Basterds in time for release at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2009. Filming began in October 2008. The title (and partial premise) of the upcoming film is inspired by Italian director Enzo Castellari's 1978 movie Inglorious Bastards. The Weinstein Company has slated August 21, 2009, as the tentative U.S. release.

The Cast
The British
Michael Fassbender as Lt. Archie Hicox: A "snappy and handsome British Lieutenant" and movie buff. He is described in the script as a "young George Sanders type". One of the film's main protagonists, albeit introduced later in the movie.
Mike Myers as Gen. Ed Fenech: A British "military mastermind" who provides a plot to kill Nazi leadership.
Rod Taylor as Winston Churchill: The then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The Jews (Occupied French)
Mélanie Laurent as Shoshanna Dreyfus: A young Jewish girl on the run. One of the film's main protoganists,[34] the closest to being the film's lead character. Tarantino states that Shosanna was "always a main character."
Léa Seydoux as Young Shoshanna
Cloris Leachman as Mrs. Himmelstein

The Axis Powers

[edit] The Nazis
Christoph Waltz as Col. Hans Landa: A charming yet sinister pipe-smoking Nazi officer nicknamed "The Jew Hunter" in reference to his keen ability to locate Jews hiding throughout France. The primary antagonist of the film.
Daniel Brühl as Frederick Zoller: A young German war hero starring in Joseph Goebbels newest Propaganda Film (entitled "Stolz der Nation") which is actually directed by Eli Roth.
August Diehl as Major Deiter Hellstrom
Sönke Möhring as Private Butz
Richard Sammel as Sgt. Werner Rachtman
Sylvester Groth as Joseph Goebbels
Martin Wuttke as Adolf Hitler

Other Roles
Samuel L. Jackson as The Narrator
Diane Kruger as Bridget von Hammersmark: A popular film star in Nazi Germany and a spy for the Allies.
Julie Dreyfus as Francesca Mondino: Joseph Goebbel's mistress, French interpreter and favourite actress to appear in his films.
Maggie Cheung as Madame Mimeux: A beautiful French woman who owns a cinema in Paris.
Ludger Pistor as Wolfgang, a role Tarantino added specifically for him.
Christian Berkel as Eric: The Barkeeper
Jacky Ido as Marcel: Shosanna's beloved and a projectionist at Mimeux's cinema
Denis Menochet as Perrier LaPadite
Jana Pallaske as an unconfirmed character
Enzo G. Castellari has said that Tarantino "wrote him a small part in the script."He has been seen walking around the set wearing a Nazi costume.
Tarantino originally talked to Simon Pegg about playing Lt. Archie Hicox, but the actor had to drop out due to scheduling difficulties[43] having already agreed to appear in Spielberg's Tintin adaptation. However, Pegg did make Tarantino promise to cast him in his next film.[44] Also, Tarantino originally sought for Leonardo DiCaprio to be cast as Hans Landa,[45] a poetic Nazi colonel targeted by the resistance.[26] The director then decided to instead have the character played by a German actor.[27] The role ultimately went to Christoph Waltz, an actor of Austrian descent.
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