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Samuel L Jackson confirmed for Tarantino's Django Unchained

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ThisWreckage said:
Foxx won't win me over. His acting really hasn't improved outside of what he showcased in In Living Color other than two rare instances.
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Way to make your mind up based on nothing. I'm not hot on the casting either, but I'll wait and see what QT can get out of him.
 
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Veidt

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Foxx just doesn't seem to fit this thing.
Can't ever imagine Foxx as a gunslinger.Ever.
Honestly, unless QT found away to rewrite the script and make Michael K. Williams the protagonist somehow, he done goofed up with the casting on this one.
 
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Veidt said:
Foxx just doesn't seem to fit this thing.
Can't ever imagine Foxx as a gunslinger.Ever.
Honestly, unless QT found away to rewrite the script and make Michael K. Williams the protagonist somehow, he done goofed up with the casting on this one.
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he's not really a traditional "gunslinger" from what I've heard about the script. He's supposed to be unassuming, non-threatening until the nazi dude from IB picks him up and trains him to be a bounty hunter (those who have read the script correct me if i'm wrong). Foxx did a great job of playing an unassuming and non-threatening guy who lashes out after being pushed to his edge in Collateral.
 
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Ninja Scooter said:
he's not really a traditional "gunslinger" from what I've heard about the script. He's supposed to be unassuming, non-threatening until the nazi dude from IB picks him up and trains him to be a bounty hunter (those who have read the script correct me if i'm wrong). Foxx did a great job of playing an unassuming and non-threatening guy who lashes out after being pushed to his edge in Collateral.
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He was easily the worst part of that film.
 
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MaddenNFL64 said:
Wait, this movie will be a christmas release? lolol.

That would be fucking awesome.
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raphier said:
For tarantino movie, huh? Because I highly doubt how it fits, if you know what I mean.
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Why are you doubting? The Weinsteins officially scheduled it a few months ago.
 
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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is a Christmas release this year. Christmas isn't just for family films anymore.
 
Blackace

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PhoenixDark said:
Way to make your mind up based on nothing. I'm not hot on the casting either, but I'll wait and see what QT can get out of him.
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When has QT utterly failed at casting when his foot fetish didn't get the better of him?
 
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Definitely still annoyed by Jamie Foxx casting. Michael K Williams is so much better but at least he has a part still. Foxx isn't a bad actor but every time he's acting I see Jamie Foxx I don't see a character. It's the same with Will Smith. Whatever talent they have isn't good enough to overshadow their celebrity.

Tom Cruise managed to overcome this in Collateral because he can really act and is capable of more than being only a money printer, but all I saw out of Foxx in Collateral was Jamie Foxx pretending to be scared. Foxx will probably do fine in this movie but nothing more than that which is disappointing. Just fine, okay, good, decent etc. but I want to see Gary Oldman type transformation in a Tarantino movie which he's managed to get out of a lot of his actors (Brad Pitt being most recent obviously), we'll see what happens I guess.

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When has QT utterly failed at casting when his foot fetish didn't get the better of him?
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Kurt Russel in Death Proof.
I refuse to be okay with such an awesome guy be punched around by some scrawny looking tomboys.
First half of the movie was cool though. Admittedly this is the only casting stuff I can think of that didn't sit with me, but Kurt was still awesome in the first half of the movie so I guess this doesn't really count.
 
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Angry Fork said:
Definitely still annoyed by Jamie Foxx casting. Michael K Williams is so much better but at least he has a part still. Foxx isn't a bad actor but every time he's acting I see Jamie Foxx I don't see a character. It's the same with Will Smith. Whatever talent they have isn't good enough to overshadow their celebrity.

Tom Cruise managed to overcome this in Collateral because he can really act and is capable of more than being only a money printer, but all I saw out of Foxx in Collateral was Jamie Foxx pretending to be scared. Foxx will probably do fine in this movie but nothing more than that which is disappointing. Just fine, okay, good, decent etc. but I want to see Gary Oldman type transformation in a Tarantino movie which he's managed to get out of a lot of his actors (Brad Pitt being most recent obviously), we'll see what happens I guess.
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I concur with you sir
 
Blackace

Blackace

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Angry Fork said:
Definitely still annoyed by Jamie Foxx casting. Michael K Williams is so much better but at least he has a part still. Foxx isn't a bad actor but every time he's acting I see Jamie Foxx I don't see a character. It's the same with Will Smith. Whatever talent they have isn't good enough to overshadow their celebrity.

Tom Cruise managed to overcome this in Collateral because he can really act and is capable of more than being only a money printer, but all I saw out of Foxx in Collateral was Jamie Foxx pretending to be scared. Foxx will probably do fine in this movie but nothing more than that which is disappointing. Just fine, okay, good, decent etc. but I want to see Gary Oldman type transformation in a Tarantino movie which he's managed to get out of a lot of his actors (Brad Pitt being most recent obviously), we'll see what happens I guess.
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Jamie Foxx out acted Tom Cruise in that movie..
 
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Blackace said:
Jamie Foxx out acted Tom Cruise in that movie..
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wai ...wait what!?

Name one scene that stands out with Foxx?

I can count several with the Cruise Missile

1. Any action sequence in the film
2. The Jazz Club
3. The Alley
4. The first hit
5. Vincent's introduction
 
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AgentOtaku said:
wai ...wait what!?

Name one scene that stands out with Foxx?

I can count several with the Cruise Missile

1. Any action sequence in the film
2. The Jazz Club
3. The Alley
4. The first hit
5. Vincent's introduction
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He's pretty good in that scene with Javier Bardem. Although I agree that Cruise was definitely better in that movie. But we can't ignore Foxx who rose above his usual shit to give us some pretty good work.
 
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Veidt

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watched Ali 2001 again.
Foxx has made me a believer..again.
 
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The plan is for him to do this movie before Kill Bill 3 right? Him working with Sam Jackson in a major role again will be awesome. Cannot wait.
 
Blackace

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Straightballin said:
Not a chance.
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ok.. I still think so.. Not saying he was poor. But to me Foxx was the better in that flick.
 
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Sam Jackson just posted this behind the scenes shot on his twitter. Getting fitted for a wig is the guess.

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Takuan

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Wow, what a cast. I'm always interested in QT stuff, but this seems like a must-see based on the cast alone. Very much looking forward to this... even though we probably won't get it until 2014.
 
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Takuan said:
Wow, what a cast. I'm always interested in QT stuff, but this seems like a must-see based on the cast alone. Very much looking forward to this... even though we probably won't get it until 2014.
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It comes out December 25th, 2012, just 430 days from now.
 
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TrAcEr_x90

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Are people really doubting Tarantinos casting choices?? With all the movies he has made with fantastic performances people still gotta hate....
 
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lupinko

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Wait, how do people hate Jamie Foxx? Just because he made Stealth? wtf.

That hobo movie he made with RDJ was bleh, but he's still good.
 
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JoJoShabadoo

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Too many doubts about the casting in here. It's Quentin fucking Tarantino, he knows what he's doing. I'd say the only mistake he made was Brad Pitt in Basterds. But Jamie Foxx and Leo Dicaprio in these roles? Gold Jerry! Gold!
 
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lupinko said:
Wait, how do people hate Jamie Foxx? Just because he made Stealth? wtf.

That hobo movie he made with RDJ was bleh, but he's still good.
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Yeah what's going on in here? He was great in Jarhead.
 
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TrAcEr_x90 said:
Are people really doubting Tarantinos casting choices?? With all the movies he has made with fantastic performances people still gotta hate....
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QT did cast Mike Myers in that obnoxiously self-indulgent scene in Inglourious Basterds...
 
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Anthony LaPaglia Joins ‘Django Unchained' - http://www.deadline.com/2011/10/ant...ained-laments-hardships-pushing-actors-to-tv/


Anthony LaPaglia has joined Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained cast. LaPaglia will play the leader of a group of greedy Australians who encounter slave-turned-bounty hunter Django (Jamie Foxx) as they are escorting a group of slaves recently purchased as fighters. LaPaglia said he and Joseph Gordon-Levitt will play mean brothers, and LaPaglia said he was bowled over by the script.
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