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.

This should be good, can't wait!

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.

Pity Idris Elba didn't get the lead.

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).

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

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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.

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

I'm not a fan of De Caprio either.