Weinstein Company Not Cutting 'Inglourious Basterds'

You may remember a couple of weeks ago about news that the Weinstein Company wanted Quentin Tarantino to cut a whopping 40 minutes from his upcoming WWII flick, "Inglourious Basterds." The news, which came from The Wrap, said that the 2 hour 40 minute length that "Basterds" was originally supposed to be was being considered, “too long, especially for American audiences.”

Well, in an interview with GQ, Harvey Weinstein has said that the news of cutting 40 minutes out of "Inglourious Basterds" is false.

“Those stories are all untrue. There’s no fu**ing way. Here, read my lips: That is nuts. Please don’t even write that, it’s insanity. There’s not even a question of that. Whatever you’re reading, it’s like some insane blogger… There’s no truth to any of this. He’s not gonna cut. What he’s doing is just reorganizing some scenes. I mean, the guy had six weeks to cut his movie [for Cannes]; most guys take six months. Most guys take a year.

When I worked with Martin [Scorsese], we’d do eighteen months in post-production. Quentin Tarantino cuts a movie in six weeks? Come on, there’s sh** on that cutting-room floor that’ll blow your brains out. I was telling Quentin the opposite-”You should put that sh** back in the movie.” There’s scenes with Brad Pitt and the Basterds, and I’m praying he puts that sh** back in, ‘cause it’s un-fu**ing-believably great. Listen-this movie will be between two hours and twenty minutes and two hours and twenty-seven minutes. I don’t think it’s going to be shorter-it’s just a question of rearranging. I know he’s putting footage back into the movie. I know he’s got some cool sh** that he didn’t get time to address.”

Wow. You have to love Harvey Weinstein. He has a way of putting words together that sound both good and bad at the same time. The guy doesn't take sh*t from anyone and it looks like he was more than happy to say that those "insane bloggers" were full of sh*t with that rumor.
But indeed this is good news as I was hoping to see the full movie when it comes out August 21.

More news to come! Catch ya' later!
Sources: Screen Rant, First Showing, The Wrap, GQ