Quentin Tarantino And Jerrod Carmichael Allegedly Doing

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Quentin Tarantino has a protracted, lengthy, lengthy historical past of threatening to make tasks he’ll most likely by no means get round to, however even contemplating that, take this with a quarry of salt. Collider is reporting, from “multiple sources,” that the auteur behind the forthcoming Once Upon a Time in Hollywood has requested Jerrod Carmichael to work with him on an adaptation of the DC/Vertigo comedian Django/Zorro.

If true, the movie would mash up two characters you maybe by no means anticipated would ever meet. Set a number of years after Tarantino’s Django Unchained, it could discover Django (presumably nonetheless performed by Jamie Foxx) taking place upon a minimum of Don Diego de la Vega, a.okay.a. Zorro, albeit an growing older model of himself. The two would then staff as much as free some individuals from slavery.

Django/Zorro is a venture Tarantino has been toying with for some time, as revealed in 2014’s notorious Sony hack. Collider’s report doesn’t specify whether or not Tarantino could be writing it with Carmichael, or if Carmichael is working alone, or if Tarantino would direct it or hand it off to another person or what.