Brad Pitt Desperate for 'Inglourious Basterds' Prequel

Wed, 11 November 2009 04:49:58 ET

Eli Roth claims his 'Inglourious Basterds' co-star is desperate to team up once again with director Quentin Tarantino in the prequel for the film.

Brad Pitt has expressed his willingness to team up again with director Quentin Tarantino in "Inglourious Basterds" prequel. Eli Roth, Pitt's co-star on the action movie, told E! Online about the actor's hope for another installment for the epic war movie.

"Everybody would drop whatever they're doing to go back to work with Quentin," Roth said at the Hamilton Behind the Camera Awards presented by Movieline.com in Hollywood. "All the time, Brad says, 'Prequel, prequel!' All the 'basterds' would jump on it in a second."

Moreover, Roth claimed he has shot some scenes that will possibly be included in the movie's prequel. "We have three scenes that we shot in Boston that take place before the war, and Quentin says if he does the prequel, he's going to use them. They're not going to be DVD extras," the 37-year-old recalled. "There's a great scene with me and Cloris Leachman. I go and get her to sign the bat. It's me and the little old Jewish ladies of the neighborhood."

Admitting that Tarantino is currently working on the script of the prequel, Roth stated, "He has most of it written, so now it's just a matter of figuring the whole thing out." He further explained, "Quentin's standards are so high that he won't do it unless he feels like he can do it better than the first one."

"Inglourious Basterds" is about Brad Pitt's Lieutenant Aldo Raine who organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution. Known to their enemy as "The Basterds," Raine's squad joins German actress and undercover agent Diane Kruger's Bridget Von Hammersmark on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich. The film was released in U.S. theaters on August 21.

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