The casting mill wheel keeps on churning and turning, and Django Unchained has gained a new name.
According to Showbiz 411, Jamie Foxx is now the top contender for Quentin Tarantino’s latest. Obviously, this remains rumor, and there’s no indication any official talks have taken place.
Still, if names are still being tossed around (even in unofficial, wist list capacity) that undoubtedly means Will Smith has passed. That’s too bad, because I think Smith needs to reinvent himself a bit. He’s getting older. He can’t keep doing family friendly action roles forever.
But one could say the same for Foxx. Wouldn’t it be great to remember why he once won an Oscar? I think he could chew this up and spit it out if he wanted.
411 also claims DiCaprio has officially signed, and will be the sleazy white slave owner. Look elsewhere for your dreams of an older, statelier Col. Sanders lookalike.
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I remember why Jamie Foxx won an Oscar: for doing a feature-length Ray Charles impression.
I like Foxx. He’s a good actor. Even though he rarely chooses to do something as interesting as Collateral. But I really wanted Smith in this.
Eddie Murphy should be campaigning hardcore for this role. He should be at QT’s door plying him with rare spices and gold trinkets.
But he’s probably got some other movies to do where cartoon animals make “jokes” and fart in his face, so, never mind.
I’ll say (type) it a million times, etch it into every tombstone in every cemetery, scratch it onto the raw, heavy palms of every colossal god, i’ll scream in every pitch that can be heard by every thing that has ever lived, i’ll write it with the trails of future bi-planes into the gaseous clouds of every planet in every universe, i’ll spell it out in puffy stickers on every trapper keeper in every classroom in every school (and even put a ‘heart’ around it, and then i’ll put in brail because some people seem to be blind…IDRIS ELBA.
That’s just what I was going to say. Admittedly with less poetry, but the sentiment was the same.
How about Djimon Hounsou?
Even better, Pokemon Hounsou!
DiCaprio as an evil sleazy plantation owner? Any black woman worth her salt would beat the shit out of that weak pussy if he tried to come onto them. This has killed all believabilty in this project.
I dig this choice.
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