Ignored Basterds: Rejected poster design

This poster for Basterds has come to light now that the barrage of Inglourious marketing is starting to wind it's way down, and makes me wonder just why it was rejected by the Weinstein Company and not used as a late in the game marketing tool.

I guess I can see that it doesn't quite fit any sort of mold you'd expect out of a one-sheet for a film, but that is its charm. It screams 'classic' and of all the posters that have been released for it, this is the one I would hang up, even before I'd hang up the awesome international poster (which eventually became domestic), and I liked the shit out of that one.

It's very artistic which you rarely see in posters these day, at least in America (see the side by side comparison of the American and Japanese Shutter Island posters HERE) and reminds me WHOLLY of that ridiculous Star Wars poster with Luke Skywalker piercing the sky with his lightsaber shamelessly brandishing his monstrous pecs to a sky of floating heads.

The simplicity of it is it's finest trait that even before the imposing title and pile of barely readable credits text could be added, the films characters and scenes are already iconic enough for you to know what it is. Click on the image to head over to PosterWire and read an interview with artist James Goodridge, whose other work you may recognize.

Comments

[Andy]

its giving me an Indian Jones vibe.