Nero Returns As "Django Lives!"

Point Blank Productions has won the film rights to "Django Lives!," a sequel to the 1966 classic spaghetti western says Screen.

 

Franco Nero, who played the character in the original films, reprises the role in the movie

Set in 1915, former gunslinger Django is now a film consultant. There he runs afoul of a group of racketeers, forcing him to flee to a town under the thumb of violent radicals.

Mark Boone Junior and Noah Segan also star. The production is currently seeking a female lead.

Joe D'Augustine, who worked as an additional editor on Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill" films and "Inglourious Basterds," directs from a script by Eric Zaldivar and Mike Malloy.

 Carolyn Pfeiffer and David Hollander are producing the film.