Last Chance Harvey talks Basterds

With the Weinstein Company reportedly on the rocks, the Brothers W have but a few more chances to get back on their feet. And their so-called last chance has great potential to give them that lift they need, based on just one name...Quentin Tarantino.

Although Halloween II releases just a week after Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, Zombie's conclusion of the Michael Myers saga doesn't have quite the pull that Basterds will have...hopefully have that is. Should Basterds flop, which is mostly unlikely unless you count that it's a WWII film and that it's going to be just about 2.5 hours long, you may wind up see dozens of in development films at the Weinstein Co. change hands or fall by the wayside. Thankfully, the name Tarantino will bring millions of ready fans to the theater, and the 15-minute standing-O at Cannes certainly can't hurt things.

Harvey Weinstein recently got on the phone with GQ for an interview about the past, present and future of Basterds. When asked about the prequel just waiting to go into development he replied:

I cannot give away the plot. [pause] Unless you turned into Jacqueline Bisset when she was 27 years old. Under those circumstances, I would give it away.

Which really adds nothing to anything, other than that the story is ready to go and they want to do it, it just made me laugh. And upon further investigation, turns out if a 27-year-old Jacqueline Bisset asked me for priveledged information, I'd give it to her too.

The real important question got asked towards the end of the interview, about whether or not we were going to see 40-minutes of footage cut from the final version of the film before it hit US theaters. Never the one to hold back any vulgarity (possibly this is why I love the guy) he said:

Those stories are all untrue. There’s no fucking way. Here, read my lips: That is nuts. Please don’t even write that, it’s insanity. There’s not even a question of that. Whatever you’re reading, there’s no truth to any of this. He’s not gonna cut.

 So there you have it folks, we're looking at a 2h25m Tarantino epic just a few months away and I couldn't be more exited. Well, with a few casting changes I could be more excited, but yeah for what he's got in there I couldn't be more excited.