Monday in Action — Django Unchained, The Amazing Spider-Man, and Intruders
Django Unchained
Despite Tarantino’s mild (to put it lightly) obsession with Uma Thurman, the auteur has apparently put his potential Kill Bill 3 project on hold to delve more fully into the Western genre. Quentin teased at the Western in Kill Bill 2, and went all out Sergio Leone spaghetti in Tsukiyaki Western Django, even if he was only an actor in the film. The latest details from his latest project, that should start filming this summer, come courtesy of someone who has supposedly read the script. Lucky.
“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.”
So Tarantino will be reuniting with the man, Waltz, who won an oscar for his performance in Inglorious Basterds. Not to diminish how excited I am for this film, but it will be interesting to see where Tarantino moves forward from here. How many genres does he have left to exploit?
The Amazing Spider-Man
New pictures from Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man surfaced over the weekend. Most of them feel like rehashes of the pics that we were treated to earlier in the year. The most significant findings to glean from these photos? First off the bad. I hate to say it, but it looks like they are taking the hipster route with Garfield’s Peter Parker. This could end up feeling current or could be the second coming of the unforgivable evil Parker in Spider-Man 3. Lastly, the good. Oscorp!
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Intruders
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s last film was the surprisingly high quality sequel to Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later. Sandwiched in between his 28 Weeks Later and the just-announced Crow reboot that he is apparently attached to, is Intruders, a story of the literal demons that haunt a family. I love it when directors have a chance to prove their mettle before a big franchise film and that is exactly what Intruders will be for Fresnadillo.
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