Tarantino's "Django Unchained"

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Tarantino’s Next Movie is Black Western Django Unchained
Published: Saturday, April 30th 2011 at 5:47 PM

Quentin Tarantino has handed in the final draft of his spaghetti western script "Django Unchained" to Weinstein Co., his agency WME confirms.

According to Tarantino Archives, the title "Django Unchained" pays homage to both the Sergio Corbucci original "Django", not to mention Takashi Miike’s "Sukiyaki Western Django", which features Tarantino. Another long-rumored inspiration, once optioned by Miramax, was Elmore Leonard’s "40 Lashes Less One".

The only cast member that WME can officially confirm is Christophe Waltz, who joins up with former slave Django to save his wife from an evil plantation owner.

No start date or locations have been finalized.

Original "Django" star Franco Nero has said he is attached, along with Waltz, Keith Carradine and Treat Williams.

Sergio at Shadow and Act4 picked up a plot description from a commenter at Hollywood Elsewhere:

Django is a freed slave, who, under the tutelage of a German bounty hunter (Christopher Waltz) becomes a bad-ass bounty hunter himself, and after assisting Waltz in taking down some bad guys for profit, is helped by Waltz in tracking down his slave wife and liberating her from an evil plantation owner. And that doesn’t even half begin to cover it! This film deals with racism as I’ve rarely seen it handled in a Hollywood film. While it’s 100 percent pure popcorn and revenge flick, it is pure genius in the way it takes on the evil slave owning south. Think of what he did with the Nazis in Inglorious and you’ll get a sense of what he’s doing with slave owners and slave overseers in this one.

WME confirmed this plotline: “It’s a western whose lead character is a former slave who is in league with Waltz to save his wife from an evil plantation owner.”

The Playlist fills in more details of what Tarantino said he wanted to do back in 2010:

I’d like to do a Western. But rather than set it in Texas, have it in slavery times. With that subject that everybody is afraid to deal with. Let’s shine that light on ourselves. You could do a ponderous history lesson of slaves escaping on the Underground Railroad. Or, you could make a movie that would be exciting. Do it as an adventure. A spaghetti Western that takes place during that time. And I would call it ‘A Southern.’.. I want to do movies that deal with America’s horrible past with slavery and stuff but do them like spaghetti westerns, not like big issue movies. I want to do them like they’re genre films, but they deal with everything that America has never dealt with because it’s ashamed of it, and other countries don’t really deal with because they don’t feel they have the right to.

It sounds like Tarantino is ready to tackle some of the taboo material in Lars von Trier’s controversial "Manderlay" or Richard Fleischer’s notoriously sensationalistic "Mandingo". Can Tarantino convince Ennio Morricone to compose an original score for the movie?

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[PainIsBeauty]

Sounds amazing! and Quentin in the perfect guy to make a movie like this,
high expectations for sure!

[neverending]

Very interesting....

[Elvis_Christ]

I'm not sure about this one. Sukiyaki Western Django was OK but it just didn't sit right with me. But thematically this does sound interesting and there's always some great moments in a Tarantino flick so I'll no doubt check it out.

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Quentin Tarantino is known for his unorthodox, out-of-the-box casting choices, from John Travolta, Robert Forster and Pam Grier to Brad Pitt, Kurt Russell, and David Carradine.

Now Leonardo DiCaprio (who Tarantino chased for the role of Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds) is in talks to play the villain in spaghetti western Django Unchained. He would play evil plantation owner Calvin Candie, who also runs Candyland, a Mississippi club that features sexually abused female slaves and mandingos forced to fight in death matches.

Still uncast—with Will Smith far from a sure thing—is Django, the slave freed and trained as a bounty hunter by sophisticated German Christolph Waltz (who won a supporting actor Oscar as Landa). He is appalled by the racist ways of the antebellum South, and helps to prepare Django to face Candie so that he can rescue his wife, Broomhilda.

Tarantino regular Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction) plays Candie’s right hand man/head house slave. Inglourious Basterds star Michael Fassbender accidentally revealed that he’s been cast in an unidentified role (thanks, Twitter).

The combo of DiCaprio and Tarantino is intriguing to say the least. Deadline reports that Idris Elba, Jamie Foxx and Chris Tucker are also in the mix for Django.

The range of actors in the mix reveal how pivotal this casting is. Like Inglourious Basterds, irreverence is king here, and the movie’s tone will be set by Django. Smith or Tucker would bring some light humor to the intense role of a very angry black man, while Foxx—no slouch in the comedy department—is a powerful dramatic actor. So is The Wire‘s Elba, who is British (Elba’s The Wire co-star, American actor Wood Harris, who played Avon Barksdale, is also worth consideration).

[newb]

yeah....looking forward to this one. Westerns are at the top of my favorite genres.

[DickLaurentIsDead]

yeah, this one's a no brainer.
opening day for sure.
i wonder what morricone and blaxploitation music he will use in this one?

[fiend_skull]

I'm extremely excited for this movie. I am a huge Tarantino fan and I love westerns, so combining the two can only end in pure bliss haha. At this point him casting Will Smith wouldn't bother me at all. Tarantino always seems to have a firm grip on the situation no matter what he is doing, when it comes to movie.

Yeah, he is a tad cocky, but when almost every movie you've made has taken spots in Top movie lists, I'd think it be okay to be a bit cocky haha.

[massacre man]

I can't wait for this.

By the way, if anyone wants a copy of the script I have it.

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Though its cast is still coming together, Quentin Tarantino’s next movie at least has a release date.

Django Unchained, a spaghetti Western about a former Southern slave who attempts to rescue his wife from a cruel plantation owner, will greet fans on Christmas Day 2012, The Weinstein Company confirmed today.

Leonardo DiCaprio is rumored to be in final talks for the role of the evil slave owner, while Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) is expected to play a German bounty hunter.

Will Smith, Idris Elba, Chris Tucker, and Jamie Foxx have been mentioned as possible candidates for the lead, with Samuel L. Jackson in the mix for another role.

Unchained would be Tarantino’s first December release since Jackie Brown opened on Christmas Day in 1997.

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Jamie Foxx has landed the lead role in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained.

Being touted as a ‘Southern’, Unchained will reportedly play with western movie tropes and relocate them to the Deep South.

Foxx will play a freed slave who attempts to save his lover from a malicious plantation owner (Leonardo DiCaprio).

He’s aided in that quest by a German bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz).

Previously, Tarantino offered the slave role to Will Smith, who graciously turned it down. After meeting with Idris Elba, Terrence Howard and Chris Tucker, Tarantino finally settled on Foxx.

Though it's disappointing that neither Smith nor Elba will get to tackle the role, Foxx is a fine replacement.

Django Unchained opens 25 December 2012.

[ABjerg]

This should be good, can't wait!

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He’s recently been in a run of smaller, quieter dramas like The Company Men and Swing Vote, but it looks like Kevin Costner really is stepping his career back up. He’s already getting set to play Jonathan Kent in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel and now he’s in talks to join Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained.

Assuming he locks in a deal, Costner will sign on to play Ace Woody, a sadistic henchman and slave trainer who works for ranch/club owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio). It would definitely be a very different role for a man better known as the heroic type (heck, even in Mr Brooks he was a family man who struggled with a dual identity as a serial killer).

Django’s plot focuses on Jamie Foxx as the title character, a former slave-turned bounty hunter who must go up against Candie and his gang (Including Samuel L. Jackson) to free his wife. He gets help from a dentist who also happens to be a dab hand at weaponry (Christoph Waltz).

If all goes well, Costner will report to the Django set after he’s finished instilling good American morals in Henry Cavill’s Clark Kent.

[Ferox13]

Pity Idris Elba didn't get the lead.

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Sacha Baron Cohen is in final negotiations to take a small but pivotal role in Quentin Tarantino's next film, Django Unchained, reports Variety. He looks set to play a gambler who buys Django's enslaved wife, Broomhilda.

Tarantino's film stars Jamie Foxx in the title role of an escaped slave who becomes a bounty hunter and returns to the plantation where he once lived in order to free his wife. The movie is a paean to spaghetti westerns, though set in the deep south rather than the old west, with the title referencing the 1966 Sergio Corbucci film Django.

Variety suggests the role of the gambler, Scotty, is an important one and Tarantino has spent some time and effort to secure the right actor. If he signs on the dotted line, Baron Cohen will be one of the final cast members to do so.

Django Unchained also features Leonardo DiCaprio as the villain of the piece, plantation owner Calvin Candie, who runs a sadistic brothel named Candyland where slaves are forced into sex work. Christoph Waltz stars as an Austrian bounty hunter who teaches Django his trade and Samuel L Jackson is a wise, proud house slave named Stephen; while Kerry Washington (Broomhilda), Kurt Russell and Dennis Christopher are also on board.

Django Unchained will shoot early next year for a December 2012 release date. It follows Tarantino's most successful film so far at the global box office, Inglourious Basterds, which pulled in $321m (£196m).

[TheMeatyLegend]

I am totally stoked about this. Anyone heard news about Rue Morgue's remake of Cut Throats 9?

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First images -

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Official Teaser Poster -

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[The Villain]

to me anything with dicaprio in it automatically isn't worth watching. just the sound of this name makes me puke.

You're missing out on some great movies then. The Departed, Blood Diamond, Shutter Island, Inception, just to name a few. He's really come back and made a name for himself as a great actor.

[The Villain]

trust me, i'm not missing anything good. imho

How do you know that if you've never seen them?

[Elvis_Christ]

I'm not a fan of De Caprio either.

[CannibalHolocaust]

I'm not a fan of De Caprio either.

who is... :rolleyes:

[The Villain]

cuz i know myself

Well that just doesn't make any sense but to each his own. I have actors who i don't like too and usually stay away from their movies so i understand.

[The Villain]

Sacha Baron Cohen, Tyler Perry, Kristen Wiig, Micheal Cera.....I'm sure there's more just drawing a blank right now.

[hammerfan]

who is on your shitlist?

Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson, Nicholas Cage, Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler, Angelina Jolie, Zooey Deschanel, Emily Deschanel.....I know I'll think of more.

[Elvis_Christ]

This sounds worse the more I read about it. I'll end up watching it when a torrent drops anyway.

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Kurt Russell & Sacha Baron Cohen drop out of Django Unchained.

http://www.hitfix.com/articles/kurt-russell-becomes-latest-django-unchained-casualty