Een vertegenwoordiger van Quentin Tarantino heeft bevestigd dat de nieuwe film van de geliefde regisseur Django Unchained gaat heten. Het wordt een spaghetti western waarvoor Tarantino het script afgelopen week heeft afgeleverd bij The Weinstein Company. Producenten zijn Stacey Sher (Pulp Fiction) en Pilar Savone.

Ook werd bekend gemaakt dat Christoph Waltz weer samenspant met Tarantino. Eerder werkten ze samen aan Inglourious Basterds (2009), Tarantino's laatste regieklus.

Tarantino beschreef zijn project al eerder als volgt: "I'd like to do a Western. But rather than set it in Texas, have it in slavery times. With that subject that everybody is afraid to deal with. Let's shine that light on ourselves. You could do a ponderous history lesson of slaves escaping on the Underground Railroad. Or, you could make a movie that would be exciting. Do it as an adventure. A spaghetti Western that takes place during that time. And I would call it 'A Southern.'"

Een lezer van Hollywood Elsewhere zegt het script al gelezen te hebben en beschrijft het als volgt: "The title character Django is a freed slave, who under the tutelage of a German bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) becomes a badass bounty hunter himself and after assisting Waltz on taking down some bad guys for profit, is in turn assisted 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 Inglourious and you'll get a sense of what he's doing with slave owners and slave overseers in this one. It's violent and funny and full of great Tarantino monologues and shoot outs (and slave rapes and slave tortures) and the center piece of the script is this fantastic relationship between Django and his Obi-Wan Waltz and it all just f*cking works in the way only Tarantino makes it work."

De film wordt nog dit jaar in productie genomen. Hieronder de cover van het script: