Director Quentin Tarantino just finished the latest draft of his much-rumored about spaghetti Western, and has handed the script Django Unchained to the Weinstein Co., his agency WME confirms.
The news followed a tweet on Friday from @AgentTrainee with the word 'Jealous?' and a picture of the script cover written in the same chicken scratch handwriting that's familiar to anyone who's read Kill Bill or Inglourious Basterds. The title fits the previously rumored cast of Franco Nero, who played the original lead role in Sergio Corbucci's 1996 Western Django.
So far the only cast member that WME can confirm is Christoph Waltz.
For those unfamiliar with Django, it had a reputation for being one of the most violent films at the time featuring a gattling gun-packing vagabond who drags the giant weapon around in a coffin. In the original film, Django--played by Nero--gets caught in a legendary battle with Mexican bandits. There's no word yet if Tarantino will just remake the film, or actually continue the story (this wouldn't be far-fetched since Nero is already attached to the script). However, we still don't know if Nero will be playing the title role, though it wouldn't be such a bad idea since he is in great shape and it's been almost 50 years!
There's also a scene ear-severing scene in the original Django which might be familiar to Reservoir Dog fans. I wonder if Tarantino will keep that in? There is talk that the backdrop will be the Reconstruction-era South which would be exciting in itself. One reader at Shadow and Black provided this plot synopsis:
"Django is a freed slave, who, under the tutelage of a German bounty hunter (played by Christopher Waltz the evil Nazi officer in Inglorious Basterds) 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!"
Looks like it's right up Tarantino's alley, especially since the director was featured in Takashi Miike's Sukiyaki Western Django. Check below for a clip, as well as the trailer to the 1966 flick.
Can't wait!
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