News on a Newton filmmaker

From the Boston Globe:
"The trailer for Quentin Tarantino's new WWII pic "Inglourious Basterds" has hit the 'Net and, predictably, it looks like a bloodbath. Interestingly, the first face you see in the clip belongs to Eli Roth, the Newton filmmaker who plays one of several Jewish-American soldiers who were dispatched to savage the Nazis. And they happily oblige. In one scene, Roth's character clubs a Nazi with a single violent swing of a Louisville Slugger. "If you thought Nazis died in 'The Dirty Dozen,' brother, you ain't seen nothing yet," film critic Harry Knowles writes on Ain'tItCool.com. Yesterday, we dropped Roth an e-mail to ask about his proficiency with a bat. "I think Boston fans are going to love [the movie], especially baseball fans," he replied. "In Boston, we use the baseball bat far more off the field than on, most often at traffic confrontations on Route 9." The "Cabin Fever" director said he and castmate B.J. Novak, also a Newton native, had the German crew talking with a Boston accent by the end of the shoot. "It was deeply satisfying to hear German crew members yelling such . . . gems as 'Put in the Steamer'," wrote Roth, a reference to former Sox reliever Bob Stanley. "I tried to teach them 'Bourquie, hit a slapper from the blue line,' but that was a little too advanced." Starring Brad Pitt, "Inglourious Basterds" opens in August."