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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #15. Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained

Yet another QT signed revenge coming to us with the usual bells and whistles: scenes with instant re-watch value, classic characters (Waltz has the funnest character of them all), well-written spoken dialogue, an homage riddled score and a casting job that will pay out in spades. Should be a blast – but will this top Basterds or the Kill Bills?

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#15. Django Unchained

Director/Writer: Quentin Tarantino
Producers:  Reginald Hudlin, Pilar Savone, Stacey Sher and of course, Harvey Weinstein
Distributor: The Weinstein Co.

The Gist: This is a spaghetti Western style story of Django (Jamie Foxx), a freed American slave who under the tutelage of a German bounty hunter (Waltz) and then becomes a badass bounty hunter himself. After assisting Waltz on taking down some bad guys for profit, he is in turn assisted by Waltz in tracking down his slave wife and liberating her from an evil plantation owner (DiCaprio)…(more)

Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen, Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Kurt Russell, Don Johnson, James Remar, Michael Kenneth Williams, RZA, Kerry Washington, Anthony LaPaglia and James Russo

List Worthy Reasons…: Yet another QT signed revenge coming to us with the usual bells and whistles: scenes with instant re-watch value, classic characters (Waltz has the funnest character of them all), well-written spoken dialogue, an homage riddled score and a casting job that will pay out in spades. Should be a blast – but will this top Basterds or the Kill Bills

Release Date/Status?: Filming begins this month. Weinstein’s are giving this to us for Xmas.

 
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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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