While at the Cannes Film Festival this past may, director Quentin Tarantino announced that his long-talked-about WWII film "Inglorious Bastards" would finally be going into production. Rumor has it that the film will be split into two parts, a la "Kill Bill," and that Tarantino has finished the script and is ready to start shooting!

"Inglorious Bastards" will be loosely based on Italian director Enzo Castellari's 1978 film of the same name. In an interview set to appear on the upcoming collector's DVD of Castellari's film, Tarantino claims that the 1978 film is only the beginning of where his two films will go. 

According to Tarantino, his film will feature "a bunch of hardened criminals on a military transport during World War II that got ambushed by the Nazis. Everyone but the criminals gets killed and the prisoners decide to make their way to neutral Switzerland and must fight the Nazis and the Allies to get there. It's a true No Man's Land scenario." 

No word on the casting yet; Tarantino has tossed dozens of big names around in the past few years, but no one is officially attached to the project yet. The film will be going into production later this year as Tarantino hopes to take it to next year's Cannes Film Festival.