Here’s another interesting development for big-screen film fans. News broke this week that TNT has landed the rights to air the hit Quentin Tarantino written and directed drama Inglourious Basterds after agreeing to cough up about $12 million, with just one little caveat…
Viewers are going to have to wait all the way until May 2012 to finally see it on the basic-cable network. Oh, well, better later than never.
For those not in the know, Inglourious Basterds is a World War II film all about two separate schemes to assassinate Nazi bigwigs in German-occupied France, one concocted by a French Jewish woman and the other by the Basterds, a group of American soldiers.
The movie also features a really, really large ensemble cast that includes Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), of course, as well as Mélanie Laurent (Paris), Eli Roth (Grindhouse), Mike Myers (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery), Michael Fassbender (Hex), Diane Kruger (Troy), B.J. Novak (The Office), and the voice of narrator Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction).
Take a look at the trailer for Inglourious Basterds below. Incidentally, folks with premium cable will also be able to catch the movie on Showtime eventually since that network landed the pay cable rights.