Friday, October 21, 2011

JGL Joins Unchained?; Rush In No Hurrry

Joseph Gordon Levitt could be joining Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained reports Variety.


The spaghetti western style film follows a a German dentist-turned bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) and freed slave Django (Jamie Foxx) seek to free Django's wife from her powerful owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio)

Gordon-Levitt wants very much to do the movie, but scheduling issues have to be sorted out first over press tours for other films which would allow him to do the pic.Nothing is known of the role JGL might be--But as someone who thinks that QT's work can be a bit over-rated at times by the masses I would more stoked to see this if JGL worked his way on the film than if he did not

Kurt Russell replacing Kevin Costner will play Ace Woody, the sadistic trainer of the male fighting slaves who entertain the white patrons of Candyland club and ranch, as well as the female slaves who are forced to be prostitutes. Ace pits the fighters against one another, and has little qualms about mistreating and even killing the slaves who don't measure up Samuel L. Jackson will play Stephen, an expert manipulator and house slave of the plantation owner.Dennis Christopher will play Leo Moguy, who serves as lawyer to Candie. Laura Cayouette will play the widowed sister of Candie M.C. Gainey will play the villainous role of Big John Brittle. His character does some not very nice things to Django’s wife, Broomhilda who remains uncast Don Johnson will play a wealthy southern plantation owner who Django and Schultz meet in their pursuit of a bounty Industry make up guru Tom Savini.Gerald McRaney also star. Michael K. Williams, Kerry Washington, and ZoĆ« Bell are all circling roles in the pic.

Production is slated to kick off in November to meet a December 25, 2012. release date

Meanwhile, writer/director David Koepp’s bicycle thriller starring Levitt, Premium Rush, is being pushed back from its January 2012 release – to the final weeks of the Summer 2012 . Originally scheduled for January 13th 2012, the film now opens on August 24th 2012. 

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