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DJANGO UNCHAINED, written/directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Jamie Foxx & Leonardo DiCaprio, is being released by The Weinstein Company on December 25th..
DJANGO UNCHAINED’s journey to the big screen began over ten years ago, when writer-director Quentin Tarantino first thought of the film’s main character, Django. “The initial germ of the whole idea was a slave who becomes a bounty hunter and then goes after overseers that are hiding out on plantations,” Tarantino recalls.
The audition lasted three hours. It was Tom Hooper’s first working session with the material, and it turned into a workshop. It was undoubtedly the most exhilarating audition of my life, but I eventually had to tell Tom I needed to go home and put my kids to bed–Hugh Jackman
I saw the stage musical on a very hot day in August. There were those three or four moments where the nerves in my spine were set on fire, and it was extraordinarily emotional. I was struck by how unbelievably addictive the melodies were–Tom Hooper
The break between the two movies lets you get used to the idea of Bella as a vampire. Bella starts this whole new life –Bill Condon
In one of the best known stories of the pair’s partnership, it was Alma who spotted Janet Leigh blink after she was presumably lying dead on the bathroom floor in a close-to-final cut of PSYCHO, sparking a quick re-edit just before the movie went out to preview.
