Dude. As if Django Unchained wasn't sounding great enough, now comes word that Joseph Gordon-Levitt has entered talks to join Quentin Tarantino's western. There was just one issue, and that was JGL's commitment to doing press for David Koepp's rather bad looking bike messenger flick, Premium Rush. But alas, Sony stepped in and pushed the film back to August 24th so "Wallah!!!", JGL now has a perfect open window. The question now is what role he'd play, since Variety doesn't have any details on that.
Not having read the script myself, I can't really speculate. Nor do I care, really. Even in a tiny part JGL is good enough to make it seem more important than it might actually be, and with Tarantino's script and penchant for creating memorable, momentary characters, it's a match made in heaven. Plus it opens the door for Tarantino and JGL to work together more in the future, and who doesn't want that?
To recap, Jamie Foxx stars as Django, a freed slave who pairs up with a German bounty hunter named King Schultz(Christoph Waltz) to take on and defeat evil slave master Calvin Candie(Leonardo Dicaprio) in hopes of finding Django's wife, Broomhilda.
Samuel L. Jackson is Candie's house slave, Stephen. Kurt Russell is Ace Woody, Candie's brutal slave master and right hand man. Don Johnson, Dennis Christopher, Gerald McRaney, Laura Cayouette, and MC Gainey also co-star, with a role said to be written in for The Wire's Michael K. Williams. We'll see if that actually happens or not.
Django Unchained is expected to hit theaters Christmas Day 2012! [Variety]
