Quentin Tarantino’s final draft for his Western Django Unchained is now owned by the Weinstein Company according to Thompson on Hollywood. The site also relays the plot of the film, courtesy of Shadow and Act. We also learn from this plot synopsis that Christoph Waltz has agreed to star as a bounty hunter who tutors the freed slave and protagonist Django, a role that has yet to be cast.
“Django is a freed slave, who, under the tutelage of a German bounty hunter (Christopher Waltz) becomes a bad-ass bounty hunter himself, and after assisting Waltz in taking down some bad guys for profit, is helped 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 Inglorious and you’ll get a sense of what he’s doing with slave owners and slave overseers in this one.”
In other words, this is to slavery and slave owners as Inglorious Basterds is to Nazis. I can’t wait. How do you feel about this project?
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