Brad Pitt is still making some news on his promotional tour for Inglorious Basterds, although he’s sort of disappeared. I’m pretty sure Brad and his family are in France now, and Brad didn’t even show up to the New York premiere of Basterds earlier this week. Fox News 411 has an exclusive clip of the movie, and it’s just added to my excitement. This movie looks like a lot of fun – of course, I’m a Tarantino fan, so I know what to expect. Lots of blood. Lots of humor that’s right on the knife’s edge of creepy.

The second part of his interview with Ann Curry aired yesterday. There’s wasn’t much in the second part, though. Not like Brad’s confession in the first part, about how “the greater the love, the greater the loss”. Brad talked about Basterds, and how he’s signed on for voice work in a new Dreamworks animated film, Oobermind. HuffPo has the rundown:

Brad Pitt plays a Nazi-scalping lieutenant from the Tennessee mountains in ‘Inglourious Basterds,’ Quentin Tarantino’s WWII epic/Nazi revenge fantasy that opens Friday.

“People lose some hair,” he told Ann Curry Tuesday on the Today Show. “I lead a renegade group who takes scalps.”

Probably not something he and Angelina Jolie will take their kids to see, but Pitt revealed another, less grisly project that will be family friendly.

“I’m doing a voice for an animation film. With Robert Downey Jr., Tina Fey. A superhero who wants out,” he said. “He doesn’t want to be a superhero anymore.”

“Is this autobiographical?” Curry asked.

“It’s not,” said Pitt. “But that sounded like an angle.”

Reports indicate the movie, due to hit theaters in November 2010, is called ‘Oobermind’ and that Will Ferrell has replaced Downey Jr. as the star. Pitt said his kids inspired him to take on the role. “It’s something they’ll enjoy, think dad’s cool,” he said.

[From Huffington Post]

Meanwhile, Quentin Tarantino has been making some major publicity rounds, giving all sorts of interviews. Tarantino told the New York Daily News that he’s already writing a prequel to Basterds, and he claimed, “A lot of the actors would really like to do it. If the movie proves to be very popular, then we’ll do it.” Eli Roth says the prequel is about his character and “Brad’s character in Italy. We’ve already signed up – we told Quentin we absolutely want to do it. On set, we’d be like, ‘Do a prequel!’ and Brad would be yelling ‘Prequel!’ in between takes.” It sounds interesting. I’ve always wondered why there haven’t been more Hollywood films about the Italian front of WWII – a lot of stuff happened in Italy, and soldiers on all sides fought bitterly.

Lastly, we have Tarantino’s appearance on David Letterman on Monday night. The part everyone is talking about is where Quentin talks about Brad, and how Brad would always fall asleep in the set of Basterds. Here’s the transcribed version:

Letterman: Honestly, we’re glad that you’re here. We would rather have Brad Pitt but…
Tarantino: [laughs]
Letterman: Getting back to Brad Pitt… there has to be some incumbent pressure, having a star of his magnatude under you control.
Tarantino: No, no, no! He’s a blast. There is that old adage: You treat actors like stars and you treat stars like actors. And it actually works out really good that way. But one of the things that’s kind of funny is we try to… usually, discourage sleeping on the set, alright, it can happen from time to time…
Letterman: [laughing] We do that in our audience, but it never works.
Tarantino: But… because Brad has a big family at home…sleeping on the set is the only time he gets to sleep.

[Transcribed from The Late Show with David Letterman, Monday 8/17/2009]

CB wants me to point out that it seems like Quentin “forgot” that whenever someone falls asleep in one of his sets, he photographs them with a giant purple dildo. I don’t even want to think about all the stuff I was photographed with when I used to pass out in college, so I’ll just skip over that part. I will say this – I do think Brad and Quentin got along really well, and it wouldn’t surprise me at all if they did more films together. Brad could become Quentin’s new muse, like Uma Thurman!

Quentin Tarantino is shown with Eli Roth an an Inglourious Basterds screening last night in NY. Credit: WENN.com