Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I owe a big thanks to the Weinstein Company and Quentin Tarantino for showing an awesome 8 minute sizzle reel from Django Unchained that I saw at Cannes and had already written up. Today is a crazy con day, so I feel like I finished some of my homework during the school day!
CLICK HERE TO READ THE WRITE-UP OF THAT AWESOME DJANGO FOOTAGE!
That just leaves the Q&A with Quentin Tarantino, Kerry Washington, Christoph Waltz, Don Johnson, Walton Goggins and Jamie Foxx, so let’s jump into it, shall we?
-Tarantino said that there is one person in the film that is a direct ancestor to someone from his universe, but would not tell us who.
-He also mentioned that he wrote Kerry Washington’s Broomhilda von Shaft with the thought that she was John Shaft’s great, great, great grandmother.
-QT has had Django Unchained in his head for 13 years, always wanted to do a spaghetti western in the style of Sergio Corbucci. He called Corbucci the spiritual godfather to Django Unchained (fitting since Corbucci did the original Django).
-He said the germ of the idea was that he wanted to make a movie about a slave who became a bounty hunter and hunts white men before the civil war.
-In an early rehearsal, QT pulled Jamie Foxx aside said he needed to get to the slave and make sure that he throws away the celebrity and actor baggage. He wanted Django to start off as the “sixth slave next to the seventh,” to not be an obvious action star.
-QT has backstories “the movie before the movie” for Django and Dr. King Schultz. He didn’t want to tell us, but he said there’s a definitive reason for Schultz fleeing from Germany. He is a fugitive himself.
-Kerry Washington’s character, Broomhilda, was owned by a German master and speaks and sings German in the film. Waltz gave her some pointers and when she first sang a German lullabye to him he said he teared up. The German crew (holdovers from Basterds) apparently said she has the most adorable accent ever.
-Kerry was apparently very interested in siphoning movie knowledge from Tarantino. He gave her lots of Marlene Dietrich, particularly The Flame of New Orleans and The Spoilers.
-Apparently a there was a cast dinner at some point where Tarantino brought up a movie that Don Johnson was in that Don Johnson argued with him that he wasn’t in… Tarantino was right (of course).
-Jonah Hill plays a character that is in a pre-KKK group called Regulators who go on the hunt for Django. Apparently this sequence is what Tarantino considers the funniest thing he’s ever written, right up there with the color name handing out scene from Reservoir Dogs.
-A fan asked about Kill Bill 3 and Tarantino said “I’m not sure if there’s going to be a Kill Bill 3. I always said it would be 10 years later if I did it, so we’ll see.” He made sure to underline that it’s still bouncing around in his head, but the time hasn’t come yet.
Now on for the rest of my Hall H adventure!
-Eric Vespe
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