Quentin Tarantino’s latest film is already dividing critics and will surely divide audiences too. Inglourious Basterds looks like Brad Pitt in a World War II romp. Don’t be surprised if you spend a lot of the time with two German characters played by actors you don’t know.

“To me the film has three leads,” Tarantino said. “It has Aldo, Shoshanna and Lando. Even the structure of the movie, the first three chapters are setting up these leads. Then, chapter four and five is okay, now the adventure begins. The other aspect though is you can say that everybody in this movie is an inglourious basterd. Doesn’t just have to mean the one little group.”

That said, the group of Jewish Nazi killers that Pitt leads are basically background players. “If you consider the Basterds the six other guys in the background, yeah, they become incidental to the actual mission themselves once the story gets going on.”

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Inglorious Basterds, the new film from director Quentin Tarentino premiered in Berlin on July 28, 2009 with the all star line up in attendance.

Pictured: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger & Quentin Tarantino.

Britney Spears is set to play a killer lesbian stripper in Quentin Tarantino’s next movie.

The troubled singer is Tarantino’s first choice to play a deranged dancer called Varla in the remake of 1965 cult film ‘Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!’.

A movie insider said: “Quentin is convinced Britney will be brilliant.

“Britney is delighted, she thinks it could turn her career and her life around. A successful film could help her get out of her current nightmare.

“It is perfect Tarantino material. He wanted to get Britney first. She’s playing the most important character.”

In the film, Varla – who was originally played by Tura Satana – leads a trio of violent strippers and kills a man with her bare hands.

Tarantino is now trying to persuade two other leading Hollywood beauties to sign up.

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Kid Rock, Fergie and Quentin Tarantino Celebrate Birthday “Love” at The Beatles Revolution Lounge inside the Mirage Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, yesterday.

Also in attendance were Vivica Fox and Daryl Hannah.

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Quentin Tarantino has a strong feeling he was William Shakespeare in a former life. The director feels he was born to write because it’s in his soul, and though he’d never seriously suggest he’s prolific Shakespeare reincarnated, Tarantino can’t rule the possibility out.

He tells GQ magazine, “I’ve always had a thought maybe that I might have been Shakespeare in another life. I don’t really believe that 100 percent, and I don’t really care about Shakespeare, I’ve never been into Shakespeare, but then people are constantly bringing up all of these qualities in my work that mirror Shakespearean tragedies and moments and themes.

“People have written lots of pieces about the parallels of my work and Shakespeare. I remember in the case of Reservoir Dogs, writing this scene where the undercover cop is teaching Tim Roth how to be an undercover cop, and when the actors came in to rehearse it, Harvey Keitel read it, and he thought I had just taken Hamlet’s speech to the players and broke it down into modern words. I’d never read Hamlet’s speech to the players.”

The moviemaker also thinks he was a black slave in America and a Japanese gentleman in former lives.