Brad Pitt joins Tarantino's 'bastards'

Brad Pitt has enlisted to play an American resistance fighter battling Nazis in German-occupied France in Quentin Tarantino's latest film "Inglorious Bastards," report said Friday.

Daily Variety and the Hollywood Reporter said Pitt's character is a Tennessee hillbilly who leads a group of Jewish-American soldiers in Tarantino's long-awaited WWII drama. The movie, which is being made by the Weinstein Co. and Universal, will begin filming in Germany in October.

It is the first time that Hollywood icon Pitt has worked with Tarantino, the acclaimed "Kill Bill" and "Pulp Fiction" director. Tarantino, whose last film was 2007's "Death Proof", has also acquired the services of German actress Natassja Kinski for "Inglorious Bastards" as well as British comedian Simon Pegg.
Courtesy of MSN News - Entertainment