Leonardo DiCaprio in Talks to Star in Tarantino's DJANGO UNCHAINED

Last month word got out that director Quentin Tarantino wanted to cast Leonardo DiCaprio in his new spaghetti western/southern film Django Unchained. Now it looks like the actor is in actual talks to star in the film. As previously reported he is up for the role of Calvin Candie, the villainous slave owner in the story, he is also the former owner of title character, Django, an escaped slave.

Deadline goes on to give some more details on who this character is, saying that he's "a charming but ruthless proprietor of Candyland, a despicable club in Mississippi where female slaves are exploited as sex objects and males are pitted against each other in "mandingo" style death matches. Candie is a slave's worst nightmare and the freed slave Django must cross him in order to reclaim his wife."

It is also being reported that Will Smith involvement in the film is becoming a long shot. It was already reported that he is at the top of the list to play DJango, the freed slave who wants to reunite with his slave wife. His journey leads him to a German bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) to take down the evil plantation owner. The German ends up training Django and helps him find his wife. Samuel L. Jackson would play the house slave to Candie. The slave is an expert manipulator and will end up facing off with Django. If Smith does fall through there are three other actor that the studio is also looking at, they include... Idris Elba, Jamie Foxx and Chris Tucker. At first glance Tucker makes absolutely no sense, but it's a very interesting choice. He hasn't made a film since Rush Hour 3 in 2007.

I'm extremely excited for this movie. I absolutely loved Inglourious Bastereds, and I think Tarantino has got another great story to tell here. I would also love to see DiCaprio take this role, it would be different from anything he's really done before. What do you all think?

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.

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