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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The multitalent Jamie Foxx is set to star alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Tarantino’s newest work which will reportedly reveal the story of a freed slave’s tribulations.

According to US reports, the Oscar-winning actor for his 2005 performance of musician Ray Charles role in Ray, will embody the lead role of an emancipated slave Django who returns to free his wife.

The actor was selected for the role over multiple stars including Idris Elba, Terrence Howard and Chris Tucker. Kerry Washington, who also starred beside Foxx in Ray is in works to play the wife of Foxx’s character. Foxx’s character learns to be a contract killer and ultimately returns to his past plantation to free his wife.

Leonardo DiCaprio is casted as the plantantion’s atrocious owner by the name of Calvin Candie. Additionally, Samuel L. Jackson is set to play a menacing slave named Stephen who fully submits to DiCaprio’s wild character while Christopher Waltz will play a German Bounty hunter who becomes a teacher for Django.

While the film’s title was inspired by Sergio Corbucci’s 1966 western Django, Django Unchained is referred to by Tarantino as “southern”.

In addition to the many actors in connection to the film, Will Smith was the first to be linked to play the role of Django yet it looks as though he turned down the role. This likely could have been in response to the abundant use of the n-word throughout the film’s script.

Nonetheless, with a talented cast set to embody the characters within Tarantino’s intriguing work, Django Unchained is sure to be a film meriting grand appeal and countless viewers.

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Is your boss a slave-driving mad man? Overly sexual and less than ethical? How about an outright sleaze? According to Warner Brother’s summer hit ‘Horrible Bosses’, more often than not the blue collar workers of the world have at least one of the three writing their paycheck.

Friends Nick (Jason Bateman), Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) and Dale (Charlie Day) live ordinary and uneventful lives, with the exception of their extraordinarily intolerable bosses. The three dutifully work and contribute to society while suffering the orders of professional bullies, sexually aggressive dentists and ignorant superiors. While many average citizens feel that their bosses have no real purpose to their existence, these three friends decide over beer and bar food that they have been driven to the edge and must kill each others bosses. Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston and Colin Farrell are the head honcho menaces stripping our three protagonists of their sanity and happiness, one day at a time. Dave (Spacey) corporate pressures Nick into Scotch chugging—at 8:15 am. Julia (Aniston) repeatedly fondles unconscious patients as well as Dale, Bobby (Farrell) constantly discriminates against the overweight and handicapped while putting Kurt in the middle. Turning in their two weeks notice is not an option for the gang, so instead they venture into the shady world of suburban homicide. There they meet Jamie Foxx as Motherfucker Jones, who mentors the harmless middle class citizens looking to pull off the perfect crime with absolutely no weapons, no training, no clue.

Packed with crude and sexual content, which is in large part thanks to Aniston’s man eating role as Dale’s dentist boss, this R rated comedy stands to prove it’s a bit spicier than what viewers usually encounter. Director Seth Gordon, who’s other movies include, “Four Christmases” and “The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters”, said that there is, “No redeeming message” to the movie, rather that it is,”just for laughing and laughing hard.”

So, why should we?

With an all star cast of established favorites and again, Jamie Foxx playing a character named Motherfucker Jones, the simplicity of the initial premise provides something that all viewers can relate to and few hopefully have had the chance to live out. With the plan of killing each others bosses and attempting to make it look like an accident, the successful outcome of all three murders is anyone’s guess. However, while Horrible Bosses has the disgruntled and poorly treated workers of the world go up against the few which hold all of the power, they are still merely blue collar workers, making their means of espionage counterproductive mayhem.

Here in lies the promise of the movie and why it is worth seeing amidst a sea of many comedies which all, frankly, have no redeeming message. If it can give us the laughs we want but provide them through plot development instead of a completely typical ending, then why not enjoy it for enjoyments sake? Do we want to see a successful stake out, or the gang settle in for a day of surveillance only to realize come nightfall that no one checked to see if anyone was actually home? Would we like the murders to just be taken care of in suave and technologically savvy manner or watch as Dale hands Spacey a peanut butter sandwich which he has a deathly allergic reaction to—only to have Dale stab him with an EpiPen and save his life? We want to see this story play out because the truth is that there are a lot of bad bosses out there, and we want to see our own beer and bar food loving doppleganger employees win.

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