Though Will Smith was originally a shoo-in for the lead in Inglorious Basterds director Quentin Tarantino's new film, a Spaghetti Western homage set in slave-era Mississippi called Django Unchained, those talks died down earlier this month in lieu of Idris Elba, Foxx and Chris Tucker as the likely star of QT's new flick.
DiCaprio may be in Django Unchained
QT's next flick: Django Unchained
One-time sitcom star Foxx joins Leonardo DiCaprio, Christoph Waltz and Samuel L. Jackson, having proven his dramatic chops in his Oscar-winning turn in Ray as well as Any Given Sunday, Collateral, Jarhead and Law Abiding Citizen.
Django is a slave who's liberated by a German dentist-turned-bounty hunter and taught the tricks of the trade by his mentor. Django's major goal in life is to recover his wife, and to do it he needs to get past the villainous ranch owner Calvin Candie (DiCaprio), who runs Candyland, a despicable club and plantation in Mississippi where female slaves are exploited as sex objects and males are pitted against each other in "mandingo"-style death matches. Candie is a slave's worst nightmare, and that is where Django's wife Broomhilda is an abused slave. [Deadline]
Waltz is signed on as a bounty hunter in Django Unchained, and Pulp Fiction star Jackson as DiCaprio/Candie's valet.
The film is being distributed by the Weinstein Company, which does not fail to amaze me every time I hear about it, because when I was an intern there they fired 11% of their staff and the most impressive thing they released that year was Soul Men. But thaaaaAt's showbinnazz.
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