Last week, director Quentin Tarantino finished his script entitled Django Unchained, an homage to the highly-stylized violent spaghetti westerns of the 1960s.
The project is progressing rapidly, with a top-shelf cast expected to be announced soon. Tarantino is also reuniting with Pulp Fiction producer, Stacey Sher, and producer Pilar Savona.
In a 2007 interview with the Daily Telegraph, Tarantino discussed an idea for a form of spaghetti western set in America’s Deep South which he called "a southern", stating that he wanted "to do movies that deal with America’s horrible past with slavery and stuff but do them like spaghetti westerns, not like big issue movies.
“I want to do them like they’re genre films, but they deal with everything that America has never dealt with because it’s ashamed of it, and other countries don’t really deal with because they don’t feel they have the right to.”
That same year, Tarantino debuted in a cameo as Piringo, an aging cowboy in Takashi Miike’s award-winning Sukiyaki Western Django, a samurai-wielding take on the 1966 cult classic spaghetti western Django directed by Sergio Corbucci.
After the success of 2009’s Inglorious Bastards, starring Brad Pitt, Tarantino announced his plans to film Kill Bill: Vol. 3, but that fans would have to wait until 2014.