{"id":14561,"date":"2011-06-23T06:45:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T11:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=14561"},"modified":"2018-11-29T23:13:08","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T04:13:08","slug":"jamie-foxx-close-to-taking-lead-in-tarantinos-django-unleashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/23\/jamie-foxx-close-to-taking-lead-in-tarantinos-django-unleashed\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Foxx Close To Taking Lead In Tarantino&#8217;s DJANGO UNLEASHED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/JamieFoxx.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14562\" title=\"JamieFoxx\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/JamieFoxx-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Has Quentin Tarantino found his lead for his next film,<strong> Django Unleashed<\/strong>, in Jamie Foxx? It is certainly appearing that way.<\/p>\n<p>Originally, Will Smith was the favored choice for the role of a freed slave who seeks vengeance against a southern plantation owner who still holds the ex-slave&#8217;s wife. It now seems that he has passed on the project, with some theorizing that he doesn&#8217;t want anything to do with any Weinstein Company production due to their involvement with the Paul Tomas Anderson film The Master, which takes some shots at Scientology.<\/p>\n<p>Idris Elba was also said to be in contention for the role should Smith pass. However, Elba just signed to be the lead in Guillermo Del Toro&#8217;s next film <strong>Pacfic Rim<\/strong>, leaving the field wide open for Foxx.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that the role is not definitely Foxx&#8217;s yet. The <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140411000342\/http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com:80\/risky-business\/jamie-foxx-quentin-tarantinos-frontrunner-203813\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a> is quoting sources saying that &#8220;no offer has been made and that talks are in a delicate stage since Foxx has concerns about taking on the risky role.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If Foxx joins the cast, he&#8217;ll find himself in the company of Christoph Waltz and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/08\/dicaprio-in-talks-for-tarantinos-django-unleashed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Leonardo DiCaprio<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The actor steps up after Will Smith passes on the film.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/23\/jamie-foxx-close-to-taking-lead-in-tarantinos-django-unleashed\/\" title=\"Jamie Foxx Close To Taking Lead In Tarantino&#8217;s DJANGO UNLEASHED\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[2020,3798,784,203,211],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-christoph-waltz","8":"tag-django-unleashed","9":"tag-jamie-foxx","10":"tag-leonardo-dicaprio","11":"tag-quentin-tarantino"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14561"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=14561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}