Tarantino's Next Titled 'Django Unchained'

Various sources are reporting that Quentin Tarantino's latest script is completed, and the title Django Unchained is scrawled-out on its face, declaring this thing totally unchained, guys. Those who have seen the script say it's also reference to Tarantino's long talked-about plans to set a Western in the South, with the "Django" part referring to the recurring Spaghetti Western character first portrayed by Franco Nero in a film of the same name and the "Unchained" bit referring to the lead character's former slave status.

While loose copyright law regarding gun-toting badasses has allowed iterations of the Django character to appear in at least 30 films--the most recent being Takashi Miike's Sukiyaki Western Django, in which Tarantino also appeared--this latest variant is supposedly a freed slave who goes out to save his wife after receiving being-awesome training from a former German bounty hunter, played by Christoph Waltz. One person who's read the screenplay said of 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 Inglorious and you'll get a sense of what he's doing with slave owners and slave overseers in this one.

The news lends credence to the previous rumor that the original Django, Franco Nero--as well as Waltz, Keith Carradine, and Treat Williams--would be making an appearance in the film. It also supports the obvious notion that we're going to see so much morally unambiguous violence as Samuel L. Jackson (probably?) murders his way to his loving Pam Grier (yeah?), all of which sounds pretty great. I wonder, though, what the rich old Southern plantation owner stereotype reaction will be, besides nervously fanning the sweat off themselves?

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