Word has it Leonardo DiCaprio may be coming aboard as villainous slave trader Calvin Candie. It's an interesting idea, a little reminiscent of when Henry Fonda decided to play the badest of the bad in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West.
If cast, DiCaprio might join Will Smith, who's rumored to be considering the title role. Smith could use an image makeover in a big way, though I really have to squint hard to see him in Tarantino’s universe. He'd be playing a slave turned bounty hunter here.
Meaning to do for the Western what Inglourious Basterds did for the war movie, the names that have been cropping up lately make for a great roster of old west characters: Idris Elba, Samuel L. Jackson, Cristoph Waltz, Franco Nero, Treat Williams and Keith Carradine.
There's no screenplay I'm more anxious to read right now, so if anybody is good at picking up a trail...?
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