Quentin Tarantino's next directorial effort, World War II drama Inglorious Bastards, already has the media in a spin and it hasn't even begun shooting yet. Tarantino's script was leaked onto the internet and some historians are angry at the portrayal of vengeful American soldiers brutalizing, scalping, shooting and strangling German soldiers. German film critic Tobias Kneibe said that "All the German historians and critics who were left gasping for breath by Tom Cruise (Valkyrie) and his worthy attempts will be so shocked by 'Inglorious Bastards' that they will savage it on the spot" and also added " the collision between Tarantino-style pop culture with the themes of the Holocaust and Jewish revenge (the titular 'Bastards' are a squad of Jewish soldiers who track down their Nazi counterparts) is unprecedented in Germany and its results are completely unpredictable."