In today's dose of Hollywood News Actually Worth Paying Attention To, word comes from the left coast that Gothamist favorite Quentin Tarantino has a new project in the works, and it sounds, unsurprisingly, totally epic. Tarantino's been pretty quiet since the release of 2009's Inglourious Basterds, but some superfans have done a little digging and come up with the details on his latest, a spaghetti Western/ slavery revenge tale called Django Unchained.
Details are still a little hazy, but the title is confirmed and Basterds breakout and Oscar winner Christoph Waltz is officially in to reunite with the director, who has long been fascinated with spaghetti westerns (he even cameo'd in Japanese director Takashi Miike's Sukiyaki Western Django) and dropped some hints about working on a new project "in a different genre entirely" last year. Many film buffs have noticed the borderline-uncanny similarities to Franco Nero's 1966 hyper-violent western classic Django.
Gossip blog Shadow and Act has word from a source who has supposedly read the script, and describes the plot thusly: "Django is a freed slave, who, under the tutelage of a German bounty hunter (played by Christopher Waltz, the evil Nazi officer in Inglorious Basterds) 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!"
Got all that? Good. Sounds killer.
