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by Adam Chitwood Posted:April 29th, 2011 at 7:45 pm
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There’ve been rumblings about Quentin Tarantino’s next project for a while now. He previously talked about doing “a Southern,” a film that would bring to surface all the slavery issues that Americans are none too fond of tackling. Then there was that spaghetti western with Franco Nero rumored to be starring. In that updated story, it was confirmed that Tarantino was in fact writing a western, and Christoph Waltz is one of the stars. Beyond that, nothing else was known. The script was due to be turned in to The Weinstein Company in two months, at which time we might know more. Well, that was February.
Today, we may have learned that the title of Tarantino’s next film may be Django Unchained. How did we learn this? If you remember that image of the title page for the Inglourious Basterds script, with Tarantino’s scribbled handwriting, what lies after the jump may look familiar. Hit the jump to see what I’m talking about. [Click here for an update on Django Unchaine, including plot details.]
Tonight an image of what looks to be the title page of Tarantino’s final draft of Django Unchained was tweeted (via Slash Film). Here’s the picture:
It sure looks a great deal similar to that Inglorious Basterds page. Though this may seem a bit far fetched, keep in mind that there exists a 1966 spaghetti western called Django starring none other than Franco Nero, the same person who appeared to have spilled the beans on Tarantino’s next project a few months back.
I wouldn’t put it past Tarantino, a guy with an insane knowledge/passion for spaghetti westerns, to take the Django character and create an entirely new film. I’m not familiar with that western, but apparently Django is a gunslinger who drags around a coffin that conceals a Gatling gun. Consider me sold. Personally, I’m just psyched for a new Tarantino flick. Hopefully we’ll hear more soon, since according to the image Tarantino just finished the final draft a few days ago.
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I’d love to see him make a Western in his style. I’m dying to see the next Kill Bill!
I was in Jackson Hole, WY last week and there was a film crew filming a scene in a small town called Kelly outside of Jackson Hole. It was Quentin Tarantino’s new western. They were filming a black man in a hot spring and I was told it was Samuel L Jackson. I couldn’t see his face, but one of the crew said it was him. That was on Wed 2/8/12. I went back the next day and they were gone. All the lighting, equipment and star trailer was gone. So he has already started filming.
Well the title “Django” obviously calls to mind Spaghetti Westerns, and the “Unchained” calls slavery to mind. So this very well could be Tarantino’s spaghetti-style slavery western. Just hope he changes the title, since Django is such an iconic name that’s already been homaged recently with that Asian movie Tarantino appeared in.
Leonardo De Caprio is cast
I think some “busy bloggers” are busy fabricating things again.
“…that Asian movie…” = Sukiyaki Western Django
“that Asian (Japanese) movie” was pretty damn awesome. If you are familiar with “Last Man Standing” (1996) or the movie that inspired it Yojimbo (1961) or Clint Eastwood’s “Man With no Name” movies you will be familiar with Sukiyaki Western Django and its awesomeness.
The name Django is included in the title of many spaghetti westerns. The original Franco Nero film was such a massive hit that it spawned legions of knock-offs and unofficial sequels in Italy. Among them is the utterly bizarre Giulo Questi film “Django, Kill!” aka “If You Live, Shoot”. This phenomena is delineated in a great documentary called “Spaghetti West”.
If Quentin has truly borrowed Corbucci’s Django, it would be interesting to see how he has treated the character. Quentin’s characters are typically verbose and expressive. The original character is tight lipped, laconic. Indeed most of the anti-heroes of the Spaghetti Western genre are nearly devoid of dialogue. Will Quentin play against this convention or embrace it?
More broadly, which conventions will he subvert and which will he honor? This question alone is interesting enough for me to be there first show, first day.
legit. we posted the color photocopy at http://www.tarantino.info
Wouldn’t it be great, if Tarantino actually made a movie again on ideas rather on pure homage and kitsch?
The man hasn’t made anything worth remembering since 1992.
There are no new ideas anymore. Tarantino just makes it more apparent where he takes his from. You obviously can’t look past the homage to see his works as a whole, so there’s no point listening to you.
I finished reading the script today in one go and it blew me away like any other Tarantino script I’ve read, sending my anticipation for the film into overdrive. While Tarantino has played with spaghetti western tropes in many of his works, this is the first time we’ll be seeing him actually operating in that period and setting. And from what he writes, it’s gonna be glorious! The shultz character is another timeless QT icon and waltz would absolutely kill it. He’s essentially like Landa in terms of charm and humor and sophistication and eloquence. minus the evil streak. and that makes him endlessly lovable, not to mention, badass. Django himself is an intense badmotherfucker who’s seen too much in his life as a slave; his hatred and anger is portrayed as matter-of-fact. One thing I really liked is that QT doesn’t turn him into a Black messiah or superman. That would be meshing genres too much, though tarantino aint one to shy away from that. But still it appeared to be a great move on his part that he seemed to be restraining himself from letting too much of blaxploitation bleed into this western…sorry, southern, in the words of the man himself. It keeps the film grounded in reality and Django’s vulnerability keeps you invested in his journey. The villains are a truly desipcable bunch..i loved to hate them (meaning, the best kinda villains!) The stephen character especially is a disgusting old snake and i somehow pictured that Armond White would be an excellent choice for that role!!! Seriously, thats the face that comes to mind when you get to know Stephen. Tarantino never shies away from the violence and to know that all of this shit ACTUALLY happened makes the hair on your arms stand. The very climax felt to me to be a bit undercooked. it was over way too quickly and didn’t give off the pathos of the ‘face of the jewish vengeance’ or ‘how do i look’ moments. but what do i know? i’m sure the master is gonna film it spectacularly, wringing it for all its worth and making saps like me bow down in worship. anyway. once again, Django Unchained is a film (oh yes its a film. like every tarantino script, it pays perfectly in your mind) that’s right up there with jackie brown and inglourious. ive found my new obsession
P.S. im tied between Michael Jai White and Idris Elba, as to who could be a better Django. Elba has more gravitas while MJW is overall quite badass. I dunno. cant help thinking