In a post-Cannes interview with Variety columnist Anne Thompson, Quentin Tarantino sizes up the early response to Inglourious Basterds and offers details about a scene he's considering adding to the theatrical release.
As a provocateur, he says he's used to criticism, but bristles at suggestions that he might have favored narrative over action a bit too much. "Who says a playwright has too much dialogue?" he muses. Undaunted, he predicts that Basterds "will be the biggest hit I have ever done."
Still, he's headed back to the edit room to do "an audience-pruning cut" and possibly add a scene. What's under consideration is a sequence that was shot but never assembled featuring Michael Fassbender as a British soldier and film-critic trying to pass as a Nazi officer.
In her blog, Thompson adds that "Fassbender pops in the movie," so this may well be an addition worth making.