Quentin Tarantino’s next film is set to be a western, and the title is being reported as being DJANGO UNCHAINED, referencing an old Italian movie DJANGO, which starred Franco Nero. Various internet sites are reporting the news but Tarantino.info have obtained what seems to be a script title page by the legendary PULP FICTION director himself. The draft of the script was dated just a few days ago, April 26th.
The other big news is that INGLORIOUS BASTERDS star Christophe Waltz has already signed up to star in the movie, which is set up over at The Weinstein Company.
Another site, Hollywood Elsewhere, have said that they have read the script, which they describe below.
“The title character Django is a freed slave, who under the tutelage of a German bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) becomes a badass bounty hunter himself and after assisting Waltz on taking down some bad guys for profit, is in turn assisted 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 Inglourious and you’ll get a sense of what he’s doing with slave owners and slave overseers in this one. It’s violent and funny and full of great Tarantino monologues and shoot outs (and slave rapes and slave tortures) and the center piece of the script is this fantastic relationship between Django and his Obi-Wan Waltz and it all just f*cking works in the way only Tarantino makes it work.”
Sounds pretty cool. The film will start shooting later this year for a release sometime next.
What do we think?
