An INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS prequel?
Nazi-scalpin’ dreams do come true! Well, maybe. Eli Roth has revealed that INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS prequel talk and desires are at the forefront of most of those Basterds’ minds, saying, “Everybody would drop whatever they’re doing to go back to work with Quentin [Tarantino]…All the time, Brad [Pitt] says, ‘Prequel, prequel!’ All the Basterds would jump on it in a second.” Guess what, Eli, most of your fans would gladly jump all over those Nazis with you.
Roth promises that this is not all just idle speculation, as Tarantino has most of the prequel already written, “so now it’s just a matter of figuring the whole thing out.” But, as the script for BASTERDS notoriously took ten years to go from page to screen, it’s no wonder that Roth does admit that “Quentin’s standards are so high that he won’t do it unless he feels like he can do it better than the first one.” Thankfully, this is all prequel talk, not sequel talk, so the pressure of keeping those Basterds young enough to look convincing in their roles might spurn Tarantino to make this sooner, rather than later.
The film’s trivia page on IMDb has long mentioned some scenes cut from the, which Tarantino could potentially use for his prequel, including a scene with Cloris Leachman. Her small role in the film was set as “Mrs. Himmelstein, an elderly Jewish woman living in Boston.” That portion of the film is part of some scenes filmed in Boston, set before the war, that would have given more insight into the origins of Roth’s Bear Jew.
In one scene, Leachman and other “little old Jewish ladies” from the Bear Jew’s neighborhood would be shown signing his trusty bat. In regards to those scenes, Roth said, “We have three scenes that we shot in Boston that take place before the war, and Quentin says if he does the prequel, he’s going to use them…They’re not going to be DVD extras.”
BASTERDS fans, what would you like to see covered in a prequel? Where Aldo’s scars came from? How our Basterds got together in the first place? Where Roth finds his ridiculous sex appeal (wait, that’s a personal desire)?
Source E! Online
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