Eli Roth is a gun-toting Basterd

After they released character poster of Brad Pitt with an interesting scar on his neck, checkout a new teaser character image of a gun-toting Eli Roth for Quentin Tarantino's latest war movie, "Inglorious Basterds".

This movie is in competition at 62nd Cannes Film Festival for the prestigious Palme d'Or (Golden Palm), festival will start on May 13 until May 24, 2009.

First Lieutenant Aldo Raine a.k.a. "Aldo the Apache" (played by Brad Pitt) organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution. Known to their enemy as "The Basterds," Raine's squad eventually joins German actress and undercover agent, Bridget von Hammersmark, on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich. Fates converge under a cinema marquee, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own.

Other cast includes Cloris Leachman, Diane Kruger, Mike Myers, B.J. Novak, Samm Levine, Til Schweiger, Michael Fassbender, Julie Dreyfus, Daniel Brühl, Rod Taylor, Mélanie Laurent, Jacky Ido, Paul Rust and many more....

[photo courtesy of tarantino archive]