Famous director Quentin Tarantino is releasing a new movie on Christmas day; it’s called ‘Django Unchained’ and it narrates the story of a slave-turned-bounty hunter (Django) that, with the help of his mentor, sets out for the rescue of his wife from a cruel plantation owner.

The new ‘Kill Bill’ director’s movie counts with the participation of the ‘Law Abiding Citizen’ actor Jamie Foxx as Django, ‘Inglorious Basterds’ actor Christoph Waltz as Dr. King Shultz (Django’s mentor) and the ‘Titanic’ star Leonardo Di Caprio as Calvin Candi who is the Mississippi plantation owner that has kidnapped Django’s wife.

The new Tarantino movie is based on another movie from the sixties called ‘Django’ made by the Italian filmmaker Sergio Corbucci, in which the Italian actor Franco Nero played Django. Corbucci’s movie is considered one of the most influential Spaghetti Westerns; it was originally banned in several countries because of the various violent scenes the movie has.

Quentin Tarantino is really excited about doing a western, but he wants his western to be different, he declared:  ”I feel like I’ve seen every story in a western, ad nauseum,” and added that “Westerns bend over backward to not deal with slavery.”

Jamie Foxx said that in order to interpret Django he had to pull from his experience of growing up in Texas, he confessed that “being called ‘nigger’ as a young kid growing up by grown people, it was something that I had to deal with coming from the south. By having that done to me, I was able to grasp what was being done in the script.”

‘Django Unchained’ was promoted by Quentin Tarantino in the San Diego Comic Con; he presented an 8 minute showcase special reel of footage from the film. The ‘Pulp Fiction’ director explained that ‘Django Unchained’ is a movie about a slave but is not a movie about slavery.

The movie takes place in the South two years before the Civil War and it basically focus on the story of a slave (Django) who is released and mentored by a bounty hunter (Dr. King Shultz) to become his partner. So the slave and his mentor start to seek the South’s most wanted criminals, but Django’s real goal is to find and rescue Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), which is the wife he lost to a slave trade long time ago.

‘Django Unchained’ is written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and produced by Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin and Pilar Savone. It will be released in the United States by The Weinstein Company on December 25 and internationally by Sony Pictures.

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Django Unchained is the new movie written and soon-to-be directed by Quentin Tarantino set when slavery plagued the South. Right now the movie is in pre-production and is still looking for people to fill the cast. Releasing his most recent film Inglourious Basterds in 2009, Tarantino has been keeping busy with Django for some years now.

With all movies, rumors spread around the Internet like flies on a discarded orange. Django is no exception to this. It is rumored that Will Smith was Tarantino’s first pick for the role of the main character Django, who is a freed slave trying to save his love from the clutches of Calvin Candie, a white plantation owner. Will Smith turned this down.

After some days of searching, the role was finally filled by actor and musician, Jaimie Foxx.  His most famous role was playing Ray Charles in the movie Ray, for which he won an Oscar for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role. In that same year, he was nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for Collateral.

Other actors who have popped up on the cast list as well. Leonardo DiCaprio might play the evil Candie, and rumors have been spread that Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) will play Dr. King Schultz, the German bounty hunter who helps Django with his rescue/revenge mission.

Tarantino finished the script early in May. It has been reported that it is 166 pages long, which converts into, roughly a 2 hour and 40 minute film. Shortly after being finished, the script leaked. Indiewire.com got a handle on it and describes the script as the most straightforward story that Tarantino has written. In the movie, it does not play around with 2 or 3 story lines like Inglourious Basterds did with Shoshanna and the Basterds.  Instead, it has one timeline, one story, in one area of the South.

Tarantino drew from two main influences: the spaghetti western Django by Sergio Corbucci and Sukiyaki Western Django.  Corbucci’s film is like a civil rights meets Fist Full Of Dollars movie. A gunslinger enters a town torn between two rivaling sections. One section is run by the KKK, and the other by Mexican bandits.  Funny enough, Quentin Tarantino is part of the cast of Sukiyaki Western Django.  This film is also closely related to Fist Full Of Dollars because of its gang-related plot.

Still in pre-production anything goes for the new Tarantino flick. With filming starting this fall and released scheduled for December 2012, this is one movie that people will keep their eyes and ears tuned as more information rolls in about the vengeful slave, Django.

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