Thursday, November 10, 2011

Chain Gang

James Remar, James Russo, Tom Wopat, and Todd Allen have joined the cast of Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" says 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)

Remar will play “Ace Speck, who purchases Django at the Greenville Slave Auction.” Wopat‘s portraying Marshall Gill Tatum Allen will appear as “plantation overseer Dollar Bill.” Russo is without a specified part.

Kurt Russell 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 Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Anthony Lapaglia also star. Rapper/actor RZA AKA Robert Diggs will portray Thaddeus, a violent slave toiling away at a Mississiippi plantation. Misty Upham will play Minnie, who owns a trading post/bar. Michael K. Williams, Kerry Washington, and Zoë Bell are all circling roles in the pic.

Production is slated to start soon to meet a December 25, 2012. release date.

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