I’ve been keeping an eye on Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming spaghetti western “Django Unchained” for quite some time now and there have been numerous high profiles stars being name dropped for possible roles in the film. Today we learn the Jamie Foxx has emerged from all other contenders as our Django.
Source: Deadline
Quentin Tarantino has made his choice and negotiations will begin for Jamie Foxx to play the title character in Django Unchained.
Foxx will join Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio and Samuel L. Jackson in a Sergio Leone-style spaghetti Western that Tarantino wrote and has set in Mississippi during slavery. No deal has been made yet, but it shouldn’t take long. While the early focus had Will Smith the likely participant, Deadline told you on June 7 that those talks had gone south, and we were first to identify Foxx as a prime contender for the role along with Idris Elba and Chris Tucker.
I chuckle each time I read the words “Chris” and “Tucker”. I dont ever expect to see him in another movie without the words “Rush” and “Hour” in the title. Not in this lifetime. I wasn’t aware that Leo DiCaprio was confirmed for this movie. This along with Chris Waltz and Sam “Muther F’n” Jackson have placed this movie in a uncommonly elevated place for a Tarantino movie.
I’m not thrilled about the casting of Foxx. He’s a hit or miss actor IMO and I can’t remember a role he played in a movie that I enjoyed much aside from “Ray” and “Law Abiding Citizen”, the latter of which I thought was mostly carried by Gerard Butler. Hopefully surrounding him with this ensemble will be able to produce the outstanding performance that I know he’s capable of delivering.
