Mike Myers, a Bastard

You have to hand it to Quentin Tarantino — he rarely makes traditional or expected casting decisions, usually for the best (his own appearances excluded). So we’ll have to give him the benefit of the doubt here…

QT will assist Mike Myers in dissipating the stench of this summer’s abhorrent LOVE GURU by giving him a minor part in his WWII flick INGLORIOUS BASTARDS.

For those of you who read the illegally but widely distributed copy of the script (so, almost all of you), Myers will play British officer Ed Fenech,  giving him yet another opportunity to utilize his increasingly intolerable array of accents. Part of me was hoping he’d play Hitler…

Brad Pitt and Eli Roth are already committed to play some of Tarantino’s behind-enemy-lines band of Nazi-killers, while Simon Pegg, David Krumholtz, BJ Novak and Natassja Kinski are apparently still pending.