More Details Revealed About Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’
Friday afternoon, a Hollywood insidertweeted a photoof the cover page tothe long rumoredQuentin Tarantinospaghetti western script. The title on the page, seen above, wasDjango Unchainedand the reveal set off a slew of news about Tarantino’s next directorial effort.Our original storywas updated with some information but, being as most of it happened over the weekend and we’re talking about the next movie by Quentin Tarantino for God’s sake, we figured it was time for a big update: what’s confirmed, what’s the status of the project, what’s it about, a quote from Tarantino and more.
The news originally broke on Twitter andwas followed by usseconds afterHitFix got to it. The flood gates then opened up.
Anne Thompson confirmedthatDjango Unchainedwas indeed the title and that, despite rumors ofseveral people attached, the only actor confirmed isChristoph Waltz, who won an Oscar working with Tarantino inInglourious Basterds. Tarantino’s agency confirmed the plot line as follows:
That goes along with a plot descriptionShadow and Act picked upfrom a commenter over on Hollywood Elsewhere:
Django is a freed slave, who, under the tutelage of a German bounty hunter (Christopher Waltz) 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! This film deals with racism as I’ve rarely seen it handled in a Hollywood film. While it’s 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 you’ll get a sense of what he’s doing with slave owners and slave overseers in this one.
The Playlist then dug upan older quote from Tarantino’s where he was obviously talking aboutDjango Unchained, we just didn’t know it at the time:
Deadline reportsthe project, which will be distributed domestically by The Weinstein Company, is “moving very quickly” with several studios, including Warner Bros., Paramount and Sony, all interested distributing the film internationally. Depending on cast availability, it could shoot as soon as late summer. Tarantino is also expected to have his way with casting.
That’s a whole lot to digest and we haven’t even touched upon the history of the Django character, the other films he’s appeared in, been referenced in and more.Hitfixhasa great rundown of that stuff(my favorite quote: “It’s no accident that Boba Fett’s dad is named Jango in the “Star Wars” prequels.") and you’re able to watch the original 1966DjangoonNetflix Watch Instantlyright now. Suffice to say, there will be much more to say about Tarantino’s latest in the coming months.
