) was the only one confirmed to star. How is that possible with Nero being the first to break the news? Well, there was some confusion as to whether Nero was talking about the spaghetti western or something else entirely. Uma Thurman recently referred to the film as Tarantino's "southern", which he'd been talking up for a few years. At the time all this was circulating I had stated how cool it would be if Tarantino did a remake of Django
, Sergio Corbucci's 1966 film which gave Nero his first major role. Well it looks like I wasn't too far off, as Indiewire has confirmed that the title of Tarantino's next effort will be "Django Unchained"! Anne Thompson has confirmed the presence of Waltz, and you'd have to expect that Nero himself will be involved somehow. Nothing on Treat Williams and Keith Carradine, who were also rumored in the beginning. This all started with a tweet from AgentTrainee of a shot that purported to be the title page of a script by Tarantino. If accurate, it would mean Tarantino finished it up just five days ago. Here's the image....
The original Django
is a Western classic, which saw Franco Nero was a drifter dragging a massive coffin which contained his weapon of choice, a fierce gatling gun. He walks into a town ruled by two warring factions and plays them both against each other. Sortof like an old West version of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo
. Tarantino has referenced Django in his other flicks before, but then again so have many others. Remember in Terminator 3
when Schwarzenegger pulls that coffin full of old guns? Django influenced. Now a commenter over at Hollywood Elsewhere claims to have the read already, which I sincerely doubt unless it's Tarantino himself, had this to say about the plot...
"The title character Django is a freed slave, who under the tutelage of a German bounty hunter (Christophe 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."
That sounds awesome and all, and a perfect fit for the "southern" Western Tarantino was said to be making, but I'd like the confirmation to come from him. Shadow and Act beat me to this, but it's an idea worth exploring a little bit. If this Django is taking place in the south, then a strong, physically imposing and charismatic black actor is needed for the title role. Might I suggest right now, one Mr. Michael Jai White? You can't tell me you aren't dying to see Black Dynamite
get the QT treatment! 
