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[Cinema] Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained

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The script should be leaked by the end of the week. I did find a post by someone who said they've read it. If true, it sounds really cool!

Quentin Tarantino Saddles Up For Spaghetti Western 'Django Unchained'

By MIKE FLEMING

Back when I saw him in late February at Harvey Weinstein's Oscar night party for The King's Speech, Quentin Tarantino told me that his script for a Western was just pouring out of him easily, that he'd finished a draft and expected to turn in a final version within two months. As a web leak of the cover page of his new script Django Unchained attests, Tarantino finished that script two days ago, right on schedule. Here's what I've heard: While Tarantino has spoken about doing a variation of the Western genre he called a "Southern," I'm told he has actually written a spaghetti Western, that stylized and violent brand of films popularized by Sergio Leone and a few other directors in the 1960s. Tarantino will put his stamp on one of his favorite genres same as he did when he took on the war mission movie with Inglourious Basterds.

The project is moving very quickly. Tarantino is reuniting with Pulp Fiction producer Stacey Sher. Sher will produce with Pilar Savone. Weinstein, who distributed Pulp Fiction, will spearhead domestic distribution on Django Unchained through TWC. Universal International has the inside track to co-finance and handle foreign distribution because of the relationship built on 2009's Inglourious Basterds, which grossed $190 million overseas and $314 million overall. Despite the early look that Universal International will get, Tarantino's script is also being pursued by Warner Bros, Paramount and Sony Pictures, I'm told. Django Unchained will be casting up quickly to begin production later this year; whether it starts late summer or fall depends on cast availability. Just like on Inglourious Basterds, Tarantino will be casting top-shelf on his spaghetti Western. Getting the WME-repped Tarantino back behind the camera is another boost for the rebounding TWC. After the leak of the cover page, everyone involved will be working harder to keep the script under wraps.
http://www.deadline.com/2011/04/quentin-tarantino-saddles-up-for-spaghetti-western-django-unchained/
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As someone who has actually read Tarantino's latest script - and no I can't forward it to anyone, it'll get out there pretty soon anyway and I ain't about to scan 166 pages of script because I'm sitting on a hard copy - I can tell you that most of you are just shooting from the hip. DJANGO is ****ing awesome and it's a script that only QT could have written... and I actually think it's one of his most personal scripts to date.

First off, this thing is going to be controversial with a capital C. 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. It's violent and funny and full of great Tarantino monologues and shoot outs (and slave rapes and slave tortures) and the center piece of the script is this fantastic relationship between Django and his Obi-Wan Waltz and it all just ****ing works in the way only Tarantino makes it work. If you're a QT hater this script won't convert you. If you're a fan, you'll be onboard for the entire ride and you'll love every ****ing second of it. I cannot wait to see the finished movie. It's going to shock and offend and drive people nuts when they see this thing. Detractors are going to find a thousand reference points from previous movies, but they've never been presented like this and I'm some one who has seen a LOT of movies and this script didn't feel familiar to me in the slightest.
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#1 percicles, Apr 30, 2011

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Big Tarantino fan, he tackles almost every genre and makes good use of it... This is going to be fun....

#2 VanityHalfBlack, Apr 30, 2011
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And you hit the ground runnin'

#3 TheFreak, Apr 30, 2011
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Inglorious Bastards is one of my favorites, look forward to anything he does.

#4 tehG l i d e, Apr 30, 2011
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TheFreak said: ↑

And you hit the ground runnin'
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#5 jo mama, Apr 30, 2011
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Pretty big fan of QT so I'm looking forward to it.

#6 Yonkers, Apr 30, 2011
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VanityHalfBlack said: ↑

Big Tarantino fan, he tackles almost every genre and makes good use of it... This is going to be fun....
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What genres? He just does his own thing.

It's a happy day when I get to see a Tarantino at the cinema.

#7 gah, May 1, 2011

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A reboot of this Django?

#8 worzel gummidge, May 1, 2011
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What genres? He just does his own thing.

It's a happy day when I get to see a Tarantino at the cinema.
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Watch some old movies especially ones from the 70's you'll see some influences.. No **** he does his own thing, he's the director.. I'm talking about the elements he add to his movies, little homages from old movies..
Clearly Kill Bill is not the first female vigilante movie you've ever seen before right???

#9 VanityHalfBlack, May 1, 2011
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can't stand the guy. most of his movies are basically replicas of asian cinema.

#10 booyah, May 1, 2011
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Except better.

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Kill Bill
Pulp Fiction
Jackie Brown
Reservoir Dogs
Inglourius Basterds
Death Proof

What a stud...

#12 Tom Bombadillo, May 1, 2011
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Sounds like a steaming pile.

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Sounds like a steaming pile.
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Watches like an orgasm.

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I like his movies, but it's one thing to do an homage and another to just completely take something. I thought it was eff'd up that he called his movie "Inglorious Basterds" when there was already a movie called "The Inglorious Bastards" that is about a group of soldiers in WWII.

Now he's using the name Django when there is already a spaghetti western titled Django.

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Sounds entertaining

#16 Mr. Clutch, May 1, 2011
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I cannot wait for this. Gotta love QT.

#17 Lurch, May 1, 2011
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Script Available now.

166 pages. Enjoy.

http://hotfile.com/dl/116661269/f0d82aa/Django_Unchained_TARANTINO.pdf.html

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Oski2005 said: ↑

I like his movies, but it's one thing to do an homage and another to just completely take something. I thought it was eff'd up that he called his movie "Inglorious Basterds" when there was already a movie called "The Inglorious Bastards" that is about a group of soldiers in WWII.

Now he's using the name Django when there is already a spaghetti western titled Django.
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It was meant to be like that (a remix if you will). If you watched both movies you would know they are entirely different. Tarantino's is better, and it's not even close.

#19 Rocketeer, May 4, 2011
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Just finished reading it. Wow!

I'm watching this during a mantinee in the lily white suburbs when it comes out.

#20 percicles, May 4, 2011

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