Brad Pitt will star as a Jewish American soldier in a film by Quentin Tarantino.
Pitt signed on to play a southern Jew who leads a team of eight Jewish Americans in exacting vengeance on the Nazis in German-occupied France.
The film, “Inglorious Bastards,” is due to start shooting in Germany in October.
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