HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- It's official - Brad Pitt has joined Quentin Tarantino's WWII film, "Inglorious Bastards," The Hollywood Reporter reports.
According to the trade, Brad will play Lt. Aldo Raine, a Southern rebel turned Jewish resistance leader, who leads eight Jewish American soldiers on a campaign of vengeance on Nazis in German-occupied France.
Other actors reportedly still in talks to join the cast include Simon Pegg, David Krumholtz, B.J. Novak, Eli Roth and Nastassja Kinski.
The Hollywood Reporter writes that, "Pegg would play a British lieutenant. Krumholtz's part would be that of a member of Pitt's team."
More details about the production inside.
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