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Thursday, November 03, 2011

RZA In QT's Unchained

Rapper/actor RZA AKA Robert Diggs and  Misty Upham have joined the cast of 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)

RZA will portray Thaddeus, a violent slave toiling away at a Mississiippi plantation. Upham will play Minnie, who owns a trading post/bar.



Kurt Russell replacing 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 Lapagliaalso star. Michael K. Williams, Kerry Washington, and Zoë Bell are all circling roles in the pic.

RZA composed the score for both parts of QT's "Kill Bill"

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

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