inglourious-basterds

It took Tarantino just over ten years to write the script for the film ‘Inglourious Basterds’ because as he wrote the story seemed to grow and expand. He looked at this story as his masterpiece so there was a pressure on him to make it the best thing he had ever written in his illustrious career so far.

Tarantino realized that his film was turning out to be a much bigger film than first planned and by 2002 saw that other directors were also working on World War II films. He had produced 3 scripts of which all were not completely finished. At this time he even toyed with the idea of either having the script made into a Television mini-series or even writing it as a novel. He also found it hard to come up with a credible ending so he held off on the movie and returned to it once completed directing ‘Kill Bill’ (2003-2004). Tarantino planned to begin the production of ‘Inglourious Basterds’ in 2005. However, in November 2004, he decided to hold off the production again to take on an acting role in ‘Sukiyaki Western Django’, ‘Takashi Miike’s’ Spaghetti Western movie. This latest project came to a holt as well, so in 2007 he decided to direct a part of ‘Grindhouse’ instead. [Read more...]