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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Link Up With "Django Unchained"

Sneak Peek new poster designs supporting writer/director Quentin Tarantino's upcoming western genre, action feature "Django Unchained".

The new film stars Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Christoph Waltz :

"...the film is set in the 'Old South' following 'Django' (Foxx), a freed slave.

"Django treks across America with the German dentist turned bounty hunter 'Dr. King Schultz' (Waltz), to retrieve Django's wife 'Broomhilda' (Kerry Washington) from the charming but sadistic Francophile plantation owner 'Calvin Candie' (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his entourage of ruthless slavers..."

Cast also includes Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Sacha Baron Cohen, Laura Cayouette, Dennis Christopher, Don Johnson, M.C. Gainey, Tom Savini, Anthony LaPaglia, James Remar, Walton Goggins, Tom Wopat, Misty Upham, RZA and Michael Bacall.

From the Weinstein Company, "Django Unchained" will be released in North America, December 25, 2012.

The title of Tarantino's film, refers to director Sergio Corbucci's 1966 'spaghetti western' feature "Django", starring actor Franco Nero, about a gunslinger who rescues a woman from bandits.

No stranger to the "Django" canon of films, Tarantino had a featured cameo in director Takashi Miike's 2007 Japanese feature "Sukiyaki Western Django".

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek Quentin Tarantino in "Sukiyaki Western Django"...