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Back in the Saddle Again: Tarantino's Next Gig Is Ready to Ride

By Cindy Davis | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (16)

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Seems like no matter how outside Quentin Tarantino’s target audience I am (I’m the gal who covers her eyes when things get too violent), I just can’t stay away from his films. I’m still surprised by how much I loved Inglourious Basterds. After dealing with the Nazis in his unique way, Tarantino is ready to “shine a light on America’s horrible past with slavery.” But rather than taking on the subject in the form of a history lesson, the director wants to twist things up and spit them out as an adventure; a spaghetti western style film he calls “A Southern.”

Django Unchained will reunite Tarantino with Inglourious Basterds’ extraordinary, Christoph Waltz. Waltz has signed on to play a German bounty hunter who shares his skills and goes on a mission with freed slave, Django. The two men set out to find and liberate Djano’s wife, still being held in servitude under an evil plantation owner. The story is said to be inspired by the 1966 Italian film, Django (there are rumors that star, Franco Nero is also attached), Sukiyaki Western Django (in which Tarantino made an appearance) and even Elmore Leonard’s 40 Lashes Less One.

Over at Shadow and Act, Sergio speculates over actors and comes to the correct conclusion that “Luther’s” Idris Elba would be perfect in the lead role—I think we all need to put that thought out to Godtopus before going to sleep each night.

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Tarantino is said to have turned in his first draft of the Django Unchained script and hopes to begin production late summer or early fall.









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Posted by: zito at May 1, 2011 3:56 PM

tarantino? oh yeah, that guy. he made that one good movie 17 years ago and has been living off either goodwill or his forehead ever since

Posted by: idleprimate at May 1, 2011 5:15 PM

I love this news so much! Idleprimate, I'm gonna have to disagree because I loved Inglorious Basterds, Kill Bill 1 and 2, and Jackie Brown the mostest. The only Tarantino I don't like is Death Proof, and even then it has it's moments. The car chases alone made that movie worth watching.

Tarantino springs forth from Knoxville, TN. It's nice to see him tackle the South, slavery, and spaghetti westerns. Bringing Waltz back makes me more excited than ever!

Posted by: Melody Be at May 1, 2011 6:00 PM

I have to say I hated Inglorious Basterds because the movie is so disrespectful of the real rebels that fought the Nazis. It crapped on the truly heroic and courageous things that average citizens did, and I don't like that.

Posted by: androstarr at May 1, 2011 6:15 PM

I'm right there with you, Melody. I am always happy when there's a new Tarantino movie in the works. And I love his new muse, Christoph Waltz... so yes. I will be there.

Posted by: Jenne Frisby at May 1, 2011 6:15 PM

I can't be the only one a little disappointed that this has nothing to do with famed jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, right? I was until I realized this was Tarantino's film about slavery. Then I was excited and only slightly disappointed.

Posted by: Robert at May 1, 2011 6:30 PM

Androstarr, come on man, seeing Hitler shot in the face like a million times by a bunch of Jews makes me wish that history actually had happened that way.

It's a revenge fantasy, and it's a good one.

Posted by: Melody Be at May 1, 2011 6:53 PM

I actually don't hope that Idris Elba gets the lead because Brits don't have the best record for getting a southern accent right. We're still suffering from Scarlett O'Hara, why every actor ever not from the south chooses her to mimic is beyond me. Still he's a talented guy, he could get it right.

Posted by: Melody Be at May 1, 2011 6:59 PM

and a nazi revenge fantasy was just so daring too, kudos for tarantino for daring to tread.

*sarcasm* (for the half wits)

Posted by: idleprimate at May 1, 2011 6:59 PM

Awesome news! I love all of Tarantino's films (that he directs) because they're usually either so much fun or truly unique. I hope "the southern" becomes a new film genre. I hate the South. I need closure. I think Tarantino can give it to me (can't believe I just said that).

Posted by: Rest In Peace at May 1, 2011 7:59 PM

Reservoir Dogs was great. Pulp Fiction was...well. We saw it in the theatre and when the credits rolled we ducked down to avoid the ushers and then just sat there and watched the whole fucking thing again. Inglourious Bastards was super-fun even though the business in the tavern dragged on for far too long.

Jackie Brown was forgettable and Kill Bill was self-indulgent garbage.

I withhold judgment on Django Unchained until I see some footage. OTOH, I love the idea of "Southerns." I don't think there's been a decent "Southern" since White Lightning with Burt Reynolds.

Posted by: Jerce at May 1, 2011 10:39 PM

I thought I had seen all forms of smug pretentiousness on this site until you posted in this thread idleprimate. Kudos to you.

Posted by: EshinX at May 2, 2011 12:56 AM

So Tarantino is going to make another pretentious, schlocky, popcorn revenge movie.

Rest In Peace, you can jump straight up a horse's ass, you fucking nob.

Posted by: JS at May 2, 2011 5:08 AM

Agree with every word Melody wrote above. I would expound, but I literally cannot think of a single word that better conveys my exact emotions than what was already written.

Posted by: superasente at May 2, 2011 8:40 AM

Why would a newly-freed slave have a southern accent?

And there is no such thing as a southern accent anyway. The American south is a really big place. People from west Tennessee don't even sound the same as people from east Tennessee.

Posted by: The Mutt at May 2, 2011 9:16 AM

Good to hear it! I look forward to Quetntins take on the south, slavery and spaghetti westerns. my only quibble is that, in my mind, the south and slavery seems logical but a spaghetti western too? Seems like a little much for one movie.

Posted by: logan at May 2, 2011 3:04 PM