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Vulture’s ‘Inglorious Bastards’ Casting Scorecard
With shooting for Quentin Tarantino’s ensemble WWII epic, Inglorious Bastards, scheduled to begin in October — and just eight and a half months until the movie’s promised screening at 2009’s Cannes Film Festival — casting news has been trickling in daily for the past few weeks. Which roles have been filled? Which ones are still open? And when will Quentin find a suitable Hitler? After the jump, with the help of the screenplay, we break it down for all the film’s major-ish speaking parts — in eye-pleasing chart form! And check back later for updates!
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| Perrier LaPadite | A French dairy farmer hiding a Jewish family. | Not yet cast. |
| Colonel Hans Landa ("The Jew Hunter") | A Nazi officer in charge of rounding up Jews in Germany-occupied France. The film's primary villain (not counting Hitler, we guess). |  Christoph Waltz |
| Shoshanna Dreyfus | The movie's female lead, a French Jewish girl who flees the Nazis as a teenager and later inherits a Parisian movie theater. | Not yet cast. |
| Lieutenant Aldo Raine | A "hillbilly from the mountains of Tennessee" who leads a team of eight Jewish American soldiers ("The Bastards"). His "defining physical characteristic" is a "rope burn around his neck." |  Brad Pitt |
| Adolf Hitler | Der Führer. | Not yet cast. (Please let it be Tom Cruise doing another Sumner Redstone impression.) |
| Private Butz | A Nazi soldier captured by the Bastards. | Not yet cast. |
| Sergeant Werner Rachtman | Another Nazi soldier captured by the Bastards. | Not yet cast. |
| Private First Class Utivich | A Bastard nicknamed "The Little One." |  B.J. Novak |
| Sergeant Donny Donowitz ("The Bear Jew") | A Bastard famous for beating Nazis to death with a baseball bat. |  Eli Roth |
| Sergeant Hugo Stiglitz | An ex–German soldier recruited by the Bastards for his exceptional Nazi-killing abilities. | Not yet officially cast, though we bet it's Til Schweiger or Daniel Brühl, both of whom have been cast in unspecified roles. |
| Private First Class Hirschberg | Another Bastard. | Not yet cast, though it's probably either Paul Rust or Samm Levine, both of whom have signed on for unspecified parts. |
| Marcel | The French black projectionist in Shoshanna's movie theater. | Not yet cast. |
| Madame Mimieux | An "attractive-looking French woman," the original owner of Shoshanna's movie theater. | Not yet cast. |
| Fredrick Zoller | A Nazi war "hero," "The German Sgt. York." | Not yet cast, though it could totally be Daniel Brühl if he's not playing Stiglitz. |
| Joseph Goebbels | The Nazi party's propaganda minister. | Not yet cast. |
| Francesca Mondino | Goebbels's translator and mistress. | Not yet cast. |
| Major Deiter Hellstorm | A Gestapo officer. | Not yet cast. |
| Lieutenant Archie Hicox | A "snappy handsome British Lieutenant," described as "a young George Sanders type." |  Michael Fassbender |
| General Ed Fenech | A British general, described as "an older George Sanders type." |  Mike Myers |
| Winston Churchill | The jowly British prime minister. | Not yet cast. |
| Bridget Von Hammersmark | A German actress and double agent for the British. |  Diane Kruger |
| Sergeant Wilhelm Wicki | A Nazi soldier. | Not yet cast. |
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