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The premiere of Django Unchained took place at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City on December 11, 2012, and was theatrically released on December 25, 2012, in the United States, grossing over $425 million worldwide against its $100 million budget, becoming Tarantino's highest-grossing movie to date.
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Principal photography took place from November 2011 to March 2012 in California, Wyoming, and Louisiana. Williams and Will Smith being considered for the role of the title character before Foxx was cast. Casting began in the summer of 2011, with Michael K. By April 2011, Tarantino sent his final draft of the script to The Weinstein Company. The story follows a black slave who trains under a German bounty hunter, with the ultimate goal of reuniting with his long-lost wife.ĭevelopment of Django Unchained began in 2007 when Tarantino was writing a book on Corbucci. Set in the Old West and Antebellum South, it is a highly stylized, heavily revisionist tribute to Spaghetti Westerns, in particular the 1966 Italian film Django by Sergio Corbucci, whose star Franco Nero has a cameo appearance. Jackson, with Walton Goggins, Dennis Christopher, James Remar, Michael Parks, and Don Johnson in supporting roles. Django Unchained ( / ˈ dʒ æ ŋ ɡ oʊ/) is a 2012 American revisionist Western film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, and Samuel L.