Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown, a loving homage to blaxploitation cinema as well as a thoughtful meditation on aging (and maybe kinda sorta his most complete and mature film—Pulp fans, please don’t shoot me), is now getting the prequel treatment… sort of.
Taking a moment from making his highly anticipated new Civil War-era western film, Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino has announced his 11 favorite films of 2011, along with some runner ups, some “nice tries,” as well as the films that he thought were the very worst of 2011. It’s a pretty surprising and contrarian list (the lists that the excellent Drive and the abysmal The Three Musketeers end up on are just, well, shocking). Check it out below.
If you live in Los Angeles, you’ve probably heard of the New Beverly. Co-owned by Quentin Tarantino, it’s one of the city of Angels finest repertory houses. Many celebrities, including Tarantino, Eli Roth, Diablo Cody, Seth Green, and Patton Oswalt have held festivals there, but Edgar Wright has now done three, and for the third one it’s got a twist: instead of showing his favorite movies, he’s showing films that he’s never seen before.
Sacha Baron Cohen is a chameleon, so it’s no surprise that Quentin Tarantino has taken a liking to the actor, and according to Variety, Cohen is in “final talks” to appear in Tarantino’s latest Django Unchained. He’d be joining cast members Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Samuel L. Jackson in QT’s western opus.
Deadline has announced that Kerry Washington has secured the role of Bromhilda, the wife of Jamie Foxx‘s titular character in Quentin Tarantino‘s Django Unchained. And with that it looks like the main roles are now locked up, with players like Samuel L. Jackson, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Kurt Russell in place.
Variety is reporting that Joseph Gordon-Levitt is “in talks” for Quentin Tarantino‘s Django Unchained. Though casting can go into a film’s shooting schedule, the film is set for a January start date, and “in talks” usually means that it’s going to happen. There may be some nasty scheduling conflicts, but those can often be worked out.
Well, the casting news for Quentin Tarantino’s highly anticipated Civil War epic, Django Unchained, just keeps on coming. After announcing that Jamie Foxx would nab the hero role, and that Christoph Waltz would join him as King Shultz (a “dentist turned bounty hunter”), we’ve learned that Sam Jackson, Dennis Christopher, Gerald McRaney and M.C. Gainey would all be in the film. Even Kevin Costner was going to show up as an evil slave trainer, before having to drop out due to his commitments to The Hatfields and the McCoys, leaving Kurt Russell to take his place. And now another addition to the cast has taken place, one that will satiate all manner of Miami Vice fans.
Last week it was reported that Kevin Costner was leaving Django Unchained, and today we’re hearing word that Kurt Russell is “in talks” to replace Costner in Quentin Tarantino‘s latest film. He would join Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christoph Waltz and Samuel L. Jackson in the western opus. Tarantino and Russell last worked together in Tarantino’s half of Grindhouse, Death Proof.
Sounds like Quentin Tarantino is back to giving actors with late-career slowdowns a big boost—after having rescued the likes of John Travolta, Robert Forster, and David Carradine from total pop obscurity by placing them in his films, QT looks set to place none other than Kevin Costner in his upcoming Django Unchained film.
