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Jamie Foxx now in the lead for 'Django Unchained'
By Adnan Tezer Jun 23, 2011, 18:19 GMT
Jamie Foxx is now the favorite to take on the title role 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 had been the leading candidate for Django with Foxx, Idris Elba and Chris Tucker also having been mentioned for the role.
Christoph Waltz, who won an Oscar for his role in Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds," will play Schultz.
Leonardo DiCaprio will 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 will play Candie's main slave.
The Weinstein Company will distribute the film domestically while Sony Pictures will distribute overseas.
Production begins this fall with a Christmas Day 2012 release date set.
The Oscar-winning Foxx will be seen in the upcoming comedy "Horrible Bosses."
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