Will Smith to Star in Quentin Tarantino's DJANGO UNCHAINED?
Quentin Tarantino's next film is being set up as a fantastic sounding spaghetti western/southern genre film style film called Django Unchained, and Will Smith has emerged as the frontrunner to star in the movie along side Samuel L. Jackson and Christoph Waltz who are also looking at joining the film project.
Will Smith in a Tarantino film? That should be a pretty awesome team up! It will be so cool to see these to talents work together. Inside sources say "Tarantino would like Smith to star in the film, the script for which has been making the rounds in recent days to wide acclaim." No official has been made to Smith yet so nothing is set in stone right now, be he has the script. Who knows if he'll take it though, this is going to be a very hard-edged controversial movie dealing with the dark issues of slavery. I'm not sure if this will be the kind of thing Smith will want to be involved with.
Here's the previously released story description of the film:
Django is a freed slave, who, under the tutelage of a German bounty hunter 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! This film deals with racism as I’ve rarely seen it handled in a Hollywood film. While it’s 100 percent pure popcorn and revenge flick, it is pure genius in the way it takes on the evil slave owning south. Think of what he did with the Nazis in Inglorious and you’ll get a sense of what he’s doing with slave owners and slave overseers in this one.
According to THR, if cast Smith would "play the title role of Django, the freed slave who seeks to reunite with his slave wife, a journey which will see him team up with a German bounty hunter to take down an evil plantation owner. Tarantino wrote the bounty hunter part with Waltz in mind, according to insiders. The German ends up training Django and helping him seek his wife. Jackson would play the house slave to the bad guy, Monsieur Calvin Candie. The slave is an expert manipulator and will face off with Django."
What are your thoughts on Smith possibly starring in a Tarantino film?