CODA: Tarantino's DJANGO UNCHAINED to Star Foxx, DiCaprio, Jackson, and Walz to Star

Variety, via the UK Guardian, reports on casting for Quentin Tarantino's slavery-era epic, Django Unchained.

Jamie Foxx will take the lead in Quentin Tarantino's latest film, the western-influenced Django Unchained, according to Variety. The Oscar-winning actor was selected over stars such as Idris Elba, Terrence Howard and Chris Tucker for the role of a freed slave who learns to become a contract killer and eventually returns to his old plantation to retrieve his wife. Kerry Washington, who starred opposite Foxx in Ray, is in line to take the latter role. Leonardo DiCaprio has already been cast as the plantation's sadistic owner, Calvin Candie, with Tarantino regular Samuel L Jackson as a sinister slave named Stephen who does his bidding.

Will Smith evidently was the first actor to be named in connection with the role of Django, but he appears to have turned it down. Reviews of Tarantino's leaked screenplay suggest it is peppered liberally with the n-word, which some critics speculate may have made Smith uncomfortable with the role.

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