Tarantino's Django Unchained

Gordon-Levitt Joins "Django", "Rush" Delayed

October 21st 2011


"Inception" and "50/50" star Joseph Gordon-Levitt is in talks to join the cast of Quentin Tarantino's spaghetti Western "Django Unchained" reports Variety.
Gordon-Levitt intends to do the movie, but scheduling issues have to be sorted out first which would allow him to do so. Shooting kicks off in New Orleans in January.
Meanwhile the David Koepp-directed thriller "Premium Rush", in which Levitt plays a bike messenger pursued by a violent cop (Michael Shannon), has been pushed back by eight months.

Casting: Django

October 26th 2011


Django Unchained
Kerry Washington has now been offered the role of the titular character's wife Broomhilda in Quentin Tarantino's upcoming slave western "Django Unchained".
The character is the one that Django (Jamie Foxx) sets out to find and rescue. [Source: Deadline]

LaPaglia Joins Tarantino's "Django"

October 31st 2011



Former "Without a Trace" star Anthony LaPaglia will be slipping back into his native Australian accent for Quentin Tarantino’s "Django Unchained" reports Deadline.
In the film, LaPaglia will play the leader of a group of greedy Australians who encounter slave-turned-bounty hunter Django (Jamie Foxx) as they are escorting a group of slaves recently purchased as fighters. The roles are relatively small but are crucial in the film's final act.
"It’s wildly ambitious and imaginative, deals with that subject matter in a way it hasn’t been dealt with before. The way the cast has shaped up, it’s exciting to be involved" says LaPaglia. The actor also confirmed that "Inception" and "The Dark Knight Rises" star Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who was cast the previous week in an unspecified role at the time, will be playing his mean brother.

Quentin Tarantino’s all star western saga ‘Django Unchained’ has just lost one of its many players in the form of ’50/50′ star Joseph Gordon Levitt. A rep for Gordon Levitt confirmed the news to EW today that the actor had pulled out of Tarantino’s slave era western due to those annoying and pesky scheduling conflicts.

I doubt that their roles were very big.