Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained (a Spaghetti Western) scheduled for release Christmas 2012

Originally Posted by K2theAblaM

Originally Posted by dhart48

Originally Posted by lobotomybeats


Absolutely.  Please tell me one actor that has been in a Tarantino film who shows the depth that Waltz does?  Waltz is amazing.

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I think it's safe to say that waltz has had one of the best roles written for him by tarantino, but i don't think he's the best... i mean django hasn't even come out what about Leo as a villain, or sam jackson as a house slave(still can't wrap my mind around that concept) I'm not taking anything away from waltz by no means ...but i wouldn't even know who to call the best in his films, he has that rare attribute in directors where he gets the best out of his actors, or atleast Uma Thurman. 

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Hanz Landa is the greatest character Tarantino has ever written (He's actually said this himself, it's not my opinion although I agree wholeheartedly. remember, this script was 10 years in the making) 
He's specifically stated in interviews that if he couldn't find the right actor to play the character, the movie would have never been made. I simply can't imagine Leo would do any justice to the role... his "accents" in every single one of his movies fall in and out of his regular voice (Gangs of NY, departed, etc)

If you ask me, Christoph Waltz was dependent upon Hanz Landa as a character just as much as the Character needed him to bring it to life. Come-on...  FOUR languages with precision delivery. I'm not sure there's another actor on earth that can do what Christoph did for that character. 

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Originally Posted by DubA169

I am stil very disappointed will smith didn't go outside his comfort zone and take this role. Says alot about him.

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Originally Posted by venom lyrix

Kurt Russell And Sacha Baron Cohen have left the film. Word is Russell stormed off set unhappy about his role and Cohen had scheduling issues.

Few weeks back Joseph Gordon-Levitt also left the film due to scheduling

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Yep, Walton Goggins.  Mr. Onanism himself.  Isn’t he part of the cast already though?  Correct!  Kurt Russell was cast as Ace Woody, one of Calvin Candie’s right-hand men.  Goggins plays Billy Crash, one of Woody’s underlings.  Long story short?  The parts will be merged.  It is Walton’s lucky day, as his side role has now become a supporting one.
I feel better about this now....If you've seen The Shield or Justified, you know.

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Originally Posted by MrONegative

Kurt Russell's replacement:

Yep, Walton Goggins.  Mr. Onanism himself.  Isn’t he part of the cast already though?  Correct!  Kurt Russell was cast as Ace Woody, one of Calvin Candie’s right-hand men.  Goggins plays Billy Crash, one of Woody’s underlings.  Long story short?  The parts will be merged.  It is Walton’s lucky day, as his side role has now become a supporting one.

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Originally Posted by Noskey

God dammit why does JGL have to be in such high demand

And why the hell is he choosing anything else over this??? 

At least Goggins will have a bigger role. Some good news there.

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Originally Posted by blakep267

Originally Posted by Noskey

God dammit why does JGL have to be in such high demand

And why the hell is he choosing anything else over this??? 

At least Goggins will have a bigger role. Some good news there.

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because I think he is making his directorial debut with his own movie and it conflicted with this.  So i guess we see whats more important to him

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Originally Posted by hymen man

MrO, you need to get on finishing Season 5 and 6.. his role expands and you really get to see his chops. 

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Originally Posted by blakep267

So i guess we see whats more important to him

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[h2]Early ‘Django Unchained’ Footage Descriptions & Reactions[/h2]
Quentin Tarantino still has more than two months left of shooting on Django Unchained - and yet already, a trailer for the western revenge tale (which is actually set in the pre-Civil War South) premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

Some 7-8 minutes of footage from Django Unchained was screened for the media in attendance at this year's Cannes - along with material from such titles as P.T. Anderson's The Master and David O. Russell's Silver Linings Playbook. To top off that also saw The Master teaser trailer pop up online, we've rounded up a handful of descriptions and reactions to the scenes shown from Tarantino's latest (and they're SPOILER-FREE to boot).

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Here's an excerpt from Indiewire's scoop on the Django Unchained footage:

• While it's not sensationally exploitative like its predecessor "Mandingo," Tarantino's movie is designed to blow people's gaskets. He knows what he's doing... What the footage reveals is that for the moment, while Tarantino has described the film as a "southern," Weinstein Co. is selling this as a bang-up western packed with physical comedy and bloody action and hell-bent revenge. And yes, it looks like a classic widescreen Sergio Leone western, even if the setting is New Orleans and Mississippi two years before the Civil War. (The music on the trailer ranged from classic Johnny Cash to James Brown. No Ennio Morricone here. As yet)... Tarantino is taking the revenge western to a whole new level as the two bounty hunters [Dr. Schultz and Django, played by Christoph Waltz and Jamie Foxx] shoot their way through the unsuspecting South. It looks like the first Leone-esque section of "Inglourious Basters," and it's about fighting injustice, except that this time it's not Brad Pitt against the Nazis in World War II- it's an angry black man getting his own back from the racist white southerners before the Civil War.

Next, we have some thoughts on the footage from AICN:

• I'd say overall we saw about 4 or 5 minutes of Django Unchained and I gotta tell you... I wasn't anticipating the amount of humor in the movie... Much like Inglourious Basterds before it, I painted a different picture in my mind, in this case a sweaty southern gothic story. But once Christoph Waltz shows up in his carriage with a giant tooth bouncing back and forth from the roof, trying to negotiate a deal with a slave driver, I began to get the tone... Again, this thing just looks like a ton of fun and while I was already excited for the movie, I am now officially giddy. All the location work makes the film look huge, Foxx is at the top of his game it appears, Waltz is lovable, funny, and dangerous all at once, and it just feels like everybody is having a blast.

To top all of that off, here is Vulture's report on the screened footage:

• The big surprise? How funny this potentially controversial Western has turned out to be. In particular, Leonardo DiCaprio seems to be having the time of his life dropping N-bombs and smiling rotted teeth as plantation owner Calvin Candie, whom freed slave Jamie Foxx and bounty hunter Christoph Waltz must defeat in order to save Foxx's wife Kerry Washington. You'll get periwinkle-suited Foxx shooting lumpy blood chunks out of racist hicks (and an innocent snowman in one scene), and you'll laugh! You'll get Don Johnson dressed as Colonel Sanders! And you'll get an instant catchphrase from a cooly underplaying Foxx, when he's asked his name: "Django. The D is Silent." 

So, there you have it. It sounds as though the early consensus (based solely on the trailer shown) is that Tarantino looks to serve up yet another healthy helping of pulpy entertainment - one that proudly wears its spaghetti western influences on its sleeve, beyond either Inglourious Bastards or Kill Bill: Vol 2.  

Admittedly though, all the surprised reactions about the amount of twisted comedy in Django Unchained are a bit... well, surprising themselves. Isn't off-beat humor a Tarantino trademark, by this point? Moving on...

Django Unchained opens in theaters around the US on December 25, 2012.

Some tweets:

@empiremagazine: Harvey Weinstein just presented 7 mins of Django Unchained. Looks ace. We're tipping Fritz the nodding horse to be a breakout star. #Cannes

@DrewAtHitFix: OMFG, "Django Unchained" looks so good. SO GOOD. #Cannes

@Jake_Howell: Just saw trailer for DJANGO "the D is silent" UNCHAINED. Mind successfully blown.

@TwitchFilm: DJANGO gets the most whoops. Plenty of blood, plenty of laughs. Looks like it will be the Christophe Waltz  show. "The D is silent." #Cannes

@zaffi: Django Unchained looks f'n badass...7 minute trailer ending with Jamie Foxx shooting his pistol to James Brown 'Payback' "The D is Silent"

@jayhanson2: Django unchained gets a few minutes at #Canne2012 to hype up tarantinos latest. Leo doin his thing n the standard slick soundtrack we expect.

@AwardsDaily: Amazing footage for Django and The Master. Crazy unleashed. Hard core violence, nudity. Awesome $!!%. #cannes2012

@loganhill33: Django looks good as the spectacular script I'd read. Bad. !*+.. Slave turned redneck-killer. Score to James Brown's "Big Payback." #Cannes

@firstshowing: "Django... the D is silent." Ha oh man Django Unchained footage looks so unbelievably badass. I love Tarantino! Saw a good 7 mins - awesome!

@ropeofsilicon: Most intrigued by The Master footage, Django Unchained ext. trailer seemed safe but solid & Silver Linings seemed rather pedestrian.

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Originally Posted by psk2310

Collider.com reports that a Django Unchained sneak peak trailer will play in front of Prometheus when it gets released. Link to story here.

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