Looks like it is legit and QT is already raiding his Ennio Morricone soundtrack collection.
http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact ... k_western/
So in case you havenגt heard, that little item I wrote yesterday morning regarding the plot details for Quentin Tarantinoגs black western Django Unchained, caused quite a buzz throughout the blogosphere all day. I had no idea it would cause such a fuss. I didnגt know that the details of the film were being kept in secretג¦ well that is until I blew the whole thing. Weגre been flooded with e-mails from insiders asking us how did we knew about it? Shortly afterward, both the William Morris Agency and The Weinstein Company confirmed that it was all true. Thatגs just like me to start something. Ainגt I a stinker?
Here's the original article
http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact ... k_western/#
Admittedly, Iגm not the greatest fan of Quentin Tarantinoגs work. He definitely knows how to put a film together, but Iגve always found him self-indulgent, too much in love with his own dialogue, and all his films have been nothing but pastiches, made entirely up of scenes from other movies. Everything in his movies is blatantly stolen from other films going back to even the 1940גs. And since he knows that his main audience basically only knows movies from Star Wars on, his films look totally original to them.
That being said, I, however, confess that Iגm dying to see his new western film which will begin shooting sometime this year Django Unchained. Now first of all Django was a series of violent Italian made גspaghettiג westerns made during the 1960גs and 1970גs. Franco Nero played the lead in the first few Django pictures, but afterward, the role was assumed by various actors. (How do I know that? Because Iגve seen most of them. Iגve been seeing movies even before Star Wars believe it or not.)
This time, Tarantino takes the Django character in a whole different direction. In his film, according to one source who has read the script, גDjango 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 doesnגt even half begin to cover it! This film deals with racism as Iגve rarely seen it handled in a Hollywood film. While itגs 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 youגll get a sense of what heגs doing with slave owners and slave overseers in this one.ג
Now I donגt know about you, but thatגs one movie Iגm standing in line to see RIGHT NOW! Though, of course, I wish it was a black director making this film, but Iגll take it regardless of who makes it.
Waltz and Nero himself are already attached to the film. However the one big question is whoגs going to play Django?
No doubt casting is going on right now. But you would need a tough masculine black actor to play that role, and since Jim Brown is now in his 70גs, that pretty much narrows down the choices considerably. One thing for sure is that, neither Tyler Perry or Terrance Howard are being considered, so thatגs a relief. But whoגs out there? Iגm assuming itגll have to be an unknown.
You have any suggestions?
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