……Brad Pitt is really just a co-star, a component of one of the film’s plotlines. Sure, he’s the biggest name in the picture, the one Quentin Tarantino had to work a little bit harder to persuade, but his “Lt. Aldo Raine” isn’t the true star of the film. At least not from its script, and from what the early reviews are stating, thankfully. Pitt is the man, but here are the film’s two real leads, international head-turners Melanie Laurent (“Shosanna Dreyfus”) and Christoph Waltz (“Col. Landa, the ‘Jew Hunter’”):


Larger-sized posters, as well as one of another non-Pitt Basterd standout, Diane Kruger, after the jump:



Posters first spotted over at: Empire Online