Kevin Costner gets a lot of crap for Waterworld and The Postman, but I always liked the guy as an actor (and if you’re one of those people who thinks Avatar is the greatest movie ever made, you really should take another look at Costner’s Dances With Wolves). But I have to admit this is probably a bad career move: as previously rumored, Deadline reports that Costner has dropped out of Quentin Tarantino‘s Django Unchained for “combination of scheduling and personal reasons.”
Costner was set to play against his type as Ace Woody, a slave trainer, which would be the most interesting role Costner has played in years because he hardly strays from his “good guy” image. But Costner is committed to being Pa Kent in Man of Steel and starring in the upcoming History Channel series The Hatfields and McCoys, so something had to give.
Tarantino has had a long history of taking actors out of their comfort zones — especially actors who are no longer the names they used to be — so it’s a bummer we won’t see Costner get the “Tarantino Revitalization” treatment.
Remaining in the cast are Jamie Foxx as the title character. Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) as Django’s mentor, Leonardo DiCaprio as the slave ranch owner Calvin Candle, and Samuel L. Jackson as Stephen, the house slave of Calvin Candle. Production has been moved up from early next year to November for (likely) a late 2012 release.
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