First Official Trailer and Collection of Stills for Quentin Tarantino's "Djangon Unchained"

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First Footage for Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained"!!

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Plot:

Set in the South two years before the Civil War, DJANGO UNCHAINED stars Academy Award®-winner Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Academy Award®-winner Christoph Waltz). Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead him to his bounty. The unorthodox Schultz acquires Django with a promise to free him upon the capture of the Brittles – dead or alive.

Success leads Schultz to free Django, though the two men choose not to go their separate ways. Instead, Schultz seeks out the South’s most wanted criminals with Django by his side. Honing vital hunting skills, Django remains focused on one goal: finding and rescuing Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), the wife he lost to the slave trade long ago.

Django and Schultz’s search ultimately leads them to Calvin Candie (Academy Award®-nominee Leonardo DiCaprio), the proprietor of “Candyland,” an infamous plantation where slaves are groomed by trainer Ace Woody (Kurt Russell) to battle each other for sport. Exploring the compound under false pretenses, Django and Schultz arouse the suspicion of Stephen (Academy Award®-nominee Samuel L. Jackson), Candie’s trusted house slave. Their moves are marked, and a treacherous organization closes in on them. If Django and Schultz are to escape with Broomhilda, they must choose between independence and solidarity, between sacrifice and survival...

Written and directed by Academy Award®-winner Quentin Tarantino, DJANGO UNCHAINED is produced by Stacey Sher, Pilar Savone and Reginald Hudlin. The executive producers are Harvey and Bob Weinstein, Michael Shamberg, Shannon McIntosh, and James Skotchdopole. DJANGO UNCHAINED will be released in the U.S. on December 25, 2012, and internationally by Sony Pictures Releasing International.

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Official Teaser Poster for Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained"!!

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First Look at the Set of Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained"

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Samuel L. Jackson is Confirmed to be in Quentin Tarantino's New Film, "Django Unchained"

Geek Tyrant reports:

Jackson is set to play Stephen, a house slave and the right-hand man of a sadistic slavemaster Candie who is being played by (Leonardo DiCaprio). Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, and Kevin Costner also star in the film. The film has been described as a Sergio Leone style Spaghetti Western, but Tarantinio is calling it a Southern, because it takes place in the south.

As previously reported, the story follows Django (Fox), a freed slave, who, under the protection and care of a German bounty hunter (Waltz) becomes a bad-ass bounty hunter himself, and after assisting Waltz in taking down some bad guys for profit, is helped by Waltz in tracking down his slave wife and liberating her from an evil plantation owner (DiCaprio). Costner will play a character named Ace Woody, "the sadistic trainer of the male fighting slaves who entertain the white patrons of Candyland as well as the female slaves who are forced to be prostitutes. The club and ranch are owned by Calvin Candie (DiCaprio) and Ace Woody is the one who pits the "mandingo" fighters against one another, and has little qualms about mistreating and even killing the slaves who don't measure up." This film also deals with racism and is handled in a way unlike anything we've ever seen in a film before. The film is set to be released on December 25th 2012.

The Title of Quentin Tarantino's Next Film is...

The name of Quentin Tarantino's next film is Django Unchained! Here is a twitpic of the script:

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Django is a freed slave, who, under the tutelage of a German bounty hunter (played by Christopher Waltz the evil Nazi officer in Inglorious Basterds) becomes a bad-ass bounty hunter himself, and after assisting Waltz in taking down some bad guys for profit, is helped by Waltz in tracking down his slave wife and liberating her from an evil plantation owner. And that doesn’t even half begin to cover it! This film deals with racism as I’ve rarely seen it handled in a Hollywood film. While it’s 100 percent pure popcorn and revenge flick, it is pure genius in the way it takes on the evil slave owning south. Think of what he did with the Nazis in Inglorious and you’ll get a sense of what he’s doing with slave owners and slave overseers in this one.

Super Tough!: The Films of Quentin Tarantino Art Series by Tim Doyle Part 1

Doyle had this to say:

The fine folks over at SpokeArt.net have put together a MASSIVE art show celebrating the films of Quentin Tarantino and the Coen Bros. and they’ve asked me to participate. Since I did five prints for their previous show, a Wes Anderson tribute (called “Bad Dads”), I decided that I had to go even bigger this time around and set out to create SEVEN pieces. As hard as it was to choose, I went with doing all seven of Tarantino’s features, and leave the Coens aside for now. A heartbreaking choice, as Raising Arizona is in my top 5 desert island films- along with Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, Robocop, Blade Runner, and Babe 2: Pig in the City. (SERIOUSLY.) But it did give me a chance to re-watch all of Quentin’s films, and see a couple for the first time. I do realize that ‘having’ to watch movies being a large part of my job is just about the craziest thing that could happen to me, but I digress.

I’ve met and talked to Tarantino several times in the past, having been a manager/creative type person at the Alamo Drafthouse at my last job. And let me say, the guy is every bit as energetic and crazed as he appears to be in all those DVD special features. He is a fanboy in the extreme. A giant, tall, animated weirdo who will talk over and through you, and you just have to nod and hold on to the conversation for dear life. In my limited experience, he’s exhausting to be around. But, it’s that crazy passion and energy that he pours into his work and it comes screaming off the screen at you.

Death Proof

The next print I tackled was Death Proof. I had actually never seen Death Proof (or Planet Terror for that matter), so I was definitely interested in finally watching the thing. The first segment in Death Proof was made in Austin where I live, and while I was working at an Iron-On t-shirt shop there, the costume department had come in and bought quite a few shirts to use on screen- most notably the bootleg Tura Satana shirt worn by the ‘Shanna’ character. And yes, the already super-small ladies small American Apparel cap-sleeve t-shirt that was worn on camera had to be taken in and made smaller still for the actress. Which leads me to believe that all Hollywood actresses have never heard of hamburgers. But I digress.

Death Proof is not my favorite of Tarantino’s films, but having seen my share (and your share, and probably the next 10 people’s share) of Grindhouse films, I knew what he was shooting for, and I appreciate the intent, at least. HOWEVER- the film has one hum-dinger of a car accident. It’s really a masterstroke of practical effects and sheer violence. Obviously in the film there’s the undercurrent of Stuntman Mike’s car-crash proclivities being a metaphorical (and possibly actual) sexual release, but I also think there’s another level in that these big old American cars can really wreck house on the smaller, crappier modern cars. Mike’s Nova totally disassembles the Civic in the first half, and it isn’t until the girls in the second half get their hands on a Challenger are they a match for Mike. In fact- in the big car chase at the end, all the modern plastic vehicles are merely obstacles to be overcome in this epic muscle-car duel. (Please note, I drive a 2007 Prius…sigh.)

Anyone familiar with my work knows that I absolutely LOVE the work of Geoff Darrow, and the way he handles movement and chaos and destruction all with an incredible eye to detail. And his love for BIG old American cars comes screaming off the page of all his comics. Heck, Big Guy (From Darrow’s “Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot”) looks like a 57 Chevy decided to stand up and start fighting Kaiju. This piece is in many ways just as inspired by Darrow’s cover to Hard Boiled #1 as it is by Death Proof. I rarely go super-gory with my stuff, but Jungle Julia’s severed leg’s arterial spray and its subsequent bouncing off the pavement like slow-mo Jello said ‘draw this’ to me. Of course, it might have been having to suffer through almost an hour of inane, poseur girl-talk that made me rejoice in their complete on-camera evisceration. On further reflection, it might be sentences like the two previous that made my middle-school English teacher suggest I needed counseling.

Kill Bill 2

In the film, when the Bride ascends the staircase to Pai Mei’s mountaintop home, and we get our first look at Pai Mei- I knew we had just shifted gears into a new genre. While the ‘House of Blue Leaves’ bit from part 1 had been a Japanese/Yakuza send-up, this was clearly going to be a Chinese-style Shaw Bros. influenced training segment, and I couldn’t have been happier. I spent several Sunday afternoons in my youth watching badly dubbed Kung-Fu epics on UHF 27 in Dallas, and Pai Mei was a recurring character in a lot of those films. This was truly a brilliant choice by a very smart nerd- Tarantino does not disappoint.

This print has the least amount of screens used out of the series, only 4. But it’s all the transparencies and overlays with the ink that gives it a wide range of color. The split fountain in the sky is printed over top of the brown in the trees, giving it some atmospheric perspective and some real depth. This was my first time trying a transparent split like that, and I’m really happy with the result. Like all split fountains, the printer is blending colors on the screen itself, so each one is a little different.

Kill Bill 1

I looped back and did Kill Bill 1 next. As tempting as it was to depict the actual sword battle between the Bride and the Crazy 88′s or the Bride and Oren, I found this scene to be the most engaging. The transition from the frantic and violent and completely unrealistic (and completely awesome) sword fight inside the House of Blue Leaves to this exterior snow scene is probably my favorite segment in the film. It felt like Dorothy exiting her house into OZ- the stillness and peace and change right then is palpable, almost tactile. The viewer knows that no matter what’s just happened, this is something new.

The soft fade in the blue-black sky was an effect I wanted to make sure I got perfectly from the film, as it really captures the mood I wanted to convey in this piece. And the addition of the falling snow turns what would have been a very static image into a living and moving thing. It’s a trick I first picked up when doing the ‘White Dragon’ Blade Runner tribute piece a while back- an atmospheric effect like that can really help bring a piece alive.

Reservoir Dogs

I hadn’t seen Reservoir Dogs in a long time, probably since it was first released on video, and I was really blown away by how freaking tight the film is. Compared to the expansivness of Kill Bill or the rambling nature of Death Proof, Dogs pretty much happens entirely in a small room, with some creative use of flashbacks to build tension, inform characters, and pull the goddamn rug out from underneath you. It’s brilliant. It’s also from 1992 which means I’m old and I’m going to die any day now. I was also surprised by how violent it WASN’T. Oh, don’t get me wrong- horrible things happen to people in this film, but it’s almost completely all off-camera.

For me, the whole film is about the bond these two characters form- Mr. White and Mr. Orange. The entire caper, and all the character’s lives come undone because of the tight honor-bond that White has with Orange. Orange took a bullet in the gut and White is going to see him saved come hell or high water. It’s in this car that the seeds of destruction are sown, a pact made in a bloody hand-clasp. And damn, what a car it is. It’s a big honking chunk of US steel, and while it’s not out of place in the film stylistically, it’s a definite conscious decision on the part of the filmmakers.

I wanted to capture the thick, hazy sky of LA in this piece, as White and Orange drive past the train yard. I hadn’t attempted a split-fountain blend like this before, and was really pleased with how it turned out. I’m also a big fan of all the completely unexplainable ‘city / industrial junk’ that populates our lives, like the telephone pole and whatever the hell that other thing is in the background there. These objects are always around us, but we’re never really cognizant of them. They’re otherworldly and commonplace at the same time.

While I did watch all the movies in order for prepping on this project, I created these prints in order of when the ideas came to me. Next up is the Kill Bill 2. I hadn’t seen the Kill Bill films since they were in cinemas (at the late, lamented Dobie Theater here in Austin) and it was fantastic to revisit them. They really are a film-lover’s dream. There’s so many flavors smashed in together, but instead of overwhelming the palette, they blend sublimely. Like a really good burrito. Hmm. I apologize, I’ve not yet eaten lunch.

Super Tough!: Quentin Tarantino and Coen Brothers Poster Art

Quentin Tarantino's Favorite Films of 2010

Tarantino's List:

1. Toy Story 3
2. The Social Network
3. Animal Kingdom
4. I Am Love
5. Tangled
6. True Grit
7. The Town
8. Greenberg
9. Cyrus
10. Enter The Void (“Hands down best credit scene of the year … Maybe best credit scene of the decade. One of the greatest in cinema history.”)
11. Kick Ass

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Inglorious Bastards Trailer

This is a trailer for the new Quentin Tarantino movie, Inglorious Bastards. Its starring my bul Brad Pitt and it looks crazy. This looks like its gonna be another Tarantino classic with over the top violence mixed with some comedic aspects here and there. I can get with that. Tarantino gets busy so peep.

And in other news, the results of the polls are in and ya'll have decided that Charles Hamilton is the hottest rapper of 2009 so far and ya'll think we should make DSMN 6,7 and 8 lol. Since you think we should, look for part 6 on Facebook in the near future. Thats all for now. Stay up, cuzzo.

Real Posters

Aiight, cuzzo. Here are some real movie teaser posters that look absolutely tough. The first one is Pandorum and it looks super redic! The movie's about these men on stranded in a spacecraft and they have amnesia so they don't know what the hell is goin' on. Then there are these savages onboard and it gets crazy. I'm definitely trying to peep.

The next one is Sherlock Holmes starring Robert Downey Jr. You can't really tell if the movie's really gonna be good by this poster but it looks pretty epic. The next jawn is 2012 and its a doomsday type movie. I just saw the trailer and it looks sooooo crazy. [2012 Trailer] I'm peeping opening weekend I promise you.

And the last poster is Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards starring Brad Pitt. Its a WWII flick but way better. Its directed by Tarantino so its gonna be a lot of outta control sequences. Im excited for this one. Tarantino is a tough ass director. That's about it so stay up.