Django Unchained

[Bunker]

Didn't see this posted yet...

Last week, in addition to finding that the full cut of Kill Bill complete with new anime sequence (aka Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair) would play the New Beverly Cinema in March, there were whisperings that Quentin Tarantino is busy assembling his new film. At the time we didn’t have any real word about what the movie would be, but now Italian actor and one-time spaghetti western star Franco Nero says that he is involved in a western with Quentin Tarantino. Further reports say that the director’s next film is definitely a western, and that it will star breakout Inglourious Basterds star Christoph Waltz.


Franco Nero told Movieplayer (via The Playlist),

My next project will be a western, but not in Italy. Here it is hard work. The film will be called The Angel, The Bad and The Wise* and is a tribute to Sergio Leone. It ‘s a movie that contains humor, lots of action, but also a great plot.

We have already been signed by a dozen people who will be part of project. Among the filmmakers involved include Quentin Tarantino, Keith Carradine, Treat Williams, fifteen people in all. Americans who want to do this movie and so we are trying to produce it outside of Italy.

(Those quotes are translated, so perhaps aren’t exact.)

But there’s more. At first we wondered if this might be something in which Quentin Tarantino might appear, aka Takashi Miike’s film Sukiyaki Western Django, rather than the film alluded to by Jeremy Smith of AICN last week when he said “Tarantino’s next project is quietly coming together behind the scenes. Hope to have something to report soon. I predict most people will be very happy with it.”

But Jeremy updated today with several points, chief among them a firm statement that Quentin Tarantino is making a spaghetti western and that it will feature Christoph Waltz. He can’t confirm the involvement of Franco Nero or any of the other actors mentioned in the quotes above. Finally, he says that title (The Angel, the Bad and the Wise) is totally wrong, and that even when you account for possible Google Translate mangling, the title “isn’t even close.”

No one has plot details yet, but the shoot is reportedly set for later this year in (contrary to Franco Nero’s statement) Italy and Spain. More on this as we get it.

http://www.slashfilm.com/quentin-tarantino-prepping-western/

 

[Doctor Jones]

Holy ****!!!

****ING FINALLY!

 

[MadVillainy]

Awesome

 

[Boom]

This wins on so many different levels.

 

[Motown Marvel]

a tarantino spaghetti western?! i just came a little.

and for the love of god they need to get that whole bloody affair out on DVD!!!!

 

[Rowsdower!]

Sounds great. I remember when I first heard about Inglourious Basterds I thought it was going to be a western because he referred to it as his "spaghetti western." And it certainly did contain elements of one, but it was still a war film. So Tarantino doing a traditional western could be epic. I hope Waltz plays a good guy. That would be different.

 

[TruerToTheCore]

Franco Nero and Treat Williams?

 

[El Payaso]

Sounds excellent.

 

[Rowsdower!]

I hope he casts Pitt in this. I really want to see him in a western. He can play an awesome redneck.

 

[Figs]

Nice!!

 

[Boom]

Christoph Waltz
Harvey Keitel
Gary Oldman

Plzkthnx .

 

[Mastodon123]

I wonder if this is the so called "Southern" Tarantino had talked about.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

Thank god for that, no more talk of this KB vol 3 nonsense.
One thing I would like to see from this though, an original s/track score. I know Tarantino has said that he does not like trusting composers to do his movies, but I think he should take the chance with a Western.
I thought using some of the Morricone stuff in KBvol2 was a bit too much, a bit like an artist sampling a song's music, but adding nothing to it at all.
and using pop music in a Western might be a little crap, I would rather he kept to an orchestrated/guitar led original s/track.
You know what will happen though, he is going to use a lot of Western themes from obscure films, with the odd pop song.

 

[Octoberist]

me want, me want!

 

[HighFivingMF]

I think this made me pregnant... And I'm a boy.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

 

[Watchman]

Fan-****ing-tastic! Very excited for more westerns. It's even better than it's being made by someone that knows and loves the genre.

You know the score is going to be beautiful.

 

[Laderlappen]

Awesome...if it happens.

 

[redhawk23]

Thank god for that, no more talk of this KB vol 3 nonsense.
One thing I would like to see from this though, an original s/track score. I know Tarantino has said that he does not like trusting composers to do his movies, but I think he should take the chance with a Western.
I thought using some of the Morricone stuff in KBvol2 was a bit too much, a bit like an artist sampling a song's music, but adding nothing to it at all.
and using pop music in a Western might be a little crap, I would rather he kept to an orchestrated/guitar led original s/track.
You know what will happen though, he is going to use a lot of Western themes from obscure films, with the odd pop song.

actually he tried to get morricone to make a whole new score for IB but it fell through

 

[kvz5]

Sounds good to me!

 

[Catman]

So, another movie where Tarantino rips off a bunch of other movies? Meh. And that title is horrible, BTW.

 

[Bobber]

So, another movie where Tarantino rips off a bunch of other movies? Meh. And that title is horrible, BTW.

The title has already been confirmed as being fake.

 

[Max J Power]

We may not see this for a few years (remember, Inglourious Basterds was once tentatively slated for a fall 2006 release), but whenever we do, I'll be pumped.

 

[jacobed]

I wish for once Tarantino would do a movie that isn't a tribute to some other director. I like the guy but honestly most of his movies really have nothing going on. He's way too in love with his dialogue that he never cuts any of it out when all of his movies could definitely use a good trimming.

 

[WildcatNC]

I wish for once Tarantino would do a movie that isn't a tribute to some other director. I like the guy but honestly most of his movies really have nothing going on. He's way too in love with his dialogue that he never cuts any of it out when all of his movies could definitely use a good trimming.

His movies are awesome. You either like them or you don't I guess, but they are fine the way they are.