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DiCaprio close to Tarantino's 'Django'
By Adnan Tezer Jun 8, 2011, 18:57 GMT
Leonardo DiCaprio is in talks to play the lead villain in Quentin Tarantino's new film "Django Unchained."
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Tarantino will direct from his own screenplay.
The film will be a spaghetti Western set during the Old South that centers on a slave named Django who teams with a German bounty hunter named Dr. King Schultz to rescue his slave wife from an evil plantation owner named Calvin Candie.
Will Smith is the leading candidate for Django although Idris Elba and Chris Tucker are also in the mix.
Christoph Waltz, who won an Oscar for his role in Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds," would play Schultz.
DiCaprio would play the sadistic Candie, the owner of a Mississippi plantation called Candyland. Candie forces his male slaves to engage in fights to the death while sexually abusing his female slaves.
Samuel L. Jackson is being considered for the role of Candie's main slave.
The Weinstein Company will distribute the film domestically.
Tarantino is hoping for a fall production start date.
DiCaprio will be seen as FBI director J. Edgar Hoover in Clint Eastwood's "J. Edgar," which opens Dec. 14.
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