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First set pictures surface for Quentin Tarantinos' "Django Unchained"

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Famed director Quentin Tarantino has been busy with his latest film, Django Unchained for several weeks now, and considering the amount of attention his projects usually garner, it’s a wonder that no set pictures have leaked, until now that is.

Starring Christoph Waltz and Jamie Foxx, as dentist turned bounty hunter King Schultz, alongside the freed slave Django, as the duo track down plantation owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo Dicaprio), in order to rescue Django’s wife, played by Kerry Washington, from the ruthless group of slavers.

Hit the jump for a look at Waltz in costume.

Django unchained has a massive ensemble cast so far, so hold your breath as you read this out: Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Sacha Baron Cohen, Dennis Christopher, Kurt Russell, Laura Cayouette,Don Johnson, M.C. Gainey, Tom Savini, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Anthony LaPaglia,RZA, Misty Upham, Tom Wopat and James Remar.

And while I’m not the biggest fan of Tarantino films as of late, due to their habot of being bogged down with mind-numbingly excruciating dialogue, I’m hoping that this western will once again get his creative juices flowing, allowing him to give us a film that both enlightens and entertains, with his trademark sadistic humour.

Django Unchained opens this year on December 25. Yes, it’s a Christmas movie, from Quentin Tarantino.

Last Updated: April 3, 2012

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  1. James Francis

    April 3, 2012 at 13:57

    Really looking forward to this. I’m an unapologetic Tarantino fan, plus this is Di Caprio’s first role as a villain. But hopefully Quentin will be a bit leaner at the edit table – Inglorious Basterds was a bit of a drag.

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    • Kervyn Cloete

      April 3, 2012 at 15:36

      I actually loved the pacing on Inglourious. Wanna speak about a drag, then look at Kill Bill Vol2

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      • James Francis

        April 3, 2012 at 16:34

        Kill bill 2 suffered from an overbearing script. But parts of Inglorious could have been trimmed – point in case where the cinema owner dies. She was competing with Trinity from The Matrix for the longest death scene. Also, the scene where they interrogate the Nazi in the forest (and then he gets klapped by the baseball bat) was a tad long in the tooth. 

        Still, Tarantino makes us love his stuff anyway. Both movies had some killer setpieces. Kill Bill 2 had the training montages and the fight in the trailer. Inglorious had the scene with the Jews hiding under the floorboards, the pub conversation and gunfight, and of course any line uttered by Brad Pitt.

        Arguably his most painful was in Death Proof. There was too much filler with the scenes in the bar – not exactly the mindless entertainment ‘grindhouse’ movies were supposed to be about.

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        • Justin Hess

          April 3, 2012 at 18:24

          Actually, I watched Kill Bill Vol 2 the other night (bit of a Tarantino festival on Universal) and I have to admit, my estimation of it has gone up drastically.

          I think most people are disappointed by it due to the relatively quick pace of Vol 1 which leaves you going in to Vol 2 expecting the same. Taken on  its own terms, Vol 2 is great, stuffed with exactly the kinds of things that people love about Tarantino films: tasty dialogue and compelling characters.

          As for Inglorious, loved it, fucking loved it. Enormous fun and that scene in the pub in France with the Germans and the Allied spies is probably the best thing Tarantino has ever done barring the end restaurent scene in Pulp.

          And agreed on Death Proof, it’s the weakest of the films he has directed but even there, I’ve found things that I enjoy (largely, again, the dialogue)

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          • James Francis

            April 3, 2012 at 19:15

            Apparently he writes his scripts in longhand as novels before porting them into a filmable format. All these books he keeps. If ever they released these in some sort of collection…

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