Entertainment Weekly has received confirmation from
Brad Pitt‘s representatives that Pitt play the key role in the upcoming
Quentin Tarantino-directed WWII project, entitled “
Inglorious Bastards.”
Tarantino also plans to meet
Leonardo DiCaprio on Thursday to play another lead role, Hans Landa.
After weeks of dizzying negations, the film has apparently found a home at Universal Pictures, which will team with Tarantino and his notorious partner-in-crime
Harvey Weinstein to finance and distribute the film both domestically and abroad.
Inglorious Bastards will film in Europe later in the year, with Tarantino aiming to premiere the movie at the
2009 Cannes Film Festival.