DJANGO LIVES! Proposed

[Andrew Monroe Pallid Hands Find all posts View Profile Close Andrew Monroe]

Saw this at the SWDB forum. The producers have Franco Nero on board if they can secure funding. Story here. It'd be fantastic to see Nero starring in a new film and I would love to see it happen but at the same time I wonder if this is trying to recapture a long gone era. One of the producers is Mike Malloy, is that the same fellow who's behind the eurocrime documentary?

[Alex K. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Alex K.]

Could be interesting. Let's hope they're not just going to a do a quickie picture to cash in on the Tarantino project.

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

I'd love to see Nero back in the saddle but Andrew, I feel you're right - I don't know if you could 'do it again' four years after the fact.

"The story would have former gunslinger Django, in his twilight years, ending up as a silent-movie consultant in 1915 Hollywood and meeting an aspiring filmmaker with whom he reluctantly goes into business. When the filmmaker gets killed by racketeers, the young man's gambling debts are considered transferred to Django, who must now flee for safety to a small rural community.

But that town's sharply divided inhabitants have their own problems, and Django becomes embroiled in a bloody conflict immediately upon arrival."

Hmmm.... I'm not loving that. Sounds like it's more of a crime/revenge/gangster movie than a spaghetti western? If that's the case, take the Django name off of it and let Nero play a different character all together.

[Mark Tolch Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Mark Tolch]

Yeah....I'd like to see Nero in that. I don't know if I want to see him as Django, though.

[Andrew Monroe Pallid Hands Find all posts View Profile Close Andrew Monroe]

Yes, that plot outline is a long way away from Django. Call him something else or it will have whiff of cash-in even if the best intentions are behind it. It's a double-edged sword, I'm sure - the Django name probably has a lot to do with chances of getting funding.

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

I'm sure it does but the flip side of that coin is that if the pump out a new Django movie that isn't true in spirit or vibe to the original, they'll irk the fanbase and all that. Not that this will matter in the least to casual movie watchers but for the SW fans who know that movie so well...

[Roderick Butthorn Find all posts View Profile Close Roderick]

I actually give them props for trying to do something a little different with this and factor in Nero's age. But even so, the second paragraph of the synopsis sounds pretty standard SW to me. The first paragraph that is getting you guys all worked up could just be the set up and be played out in the first 10-15 minutes of the movie.

[Paul Casey Frito Bandito Find all posts View Profile Close Paul Casey]

Sounds like they're going with Fistful of Dollars/Yojimbo but with more of character background.

[Robert W Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Robert W]

Nero is a fine actor, but the plot does sound like another Red Harvest retread. Still, as less than inspired as the plot so far sounds, I have no doubt it will better than anything that arch-hack Tarantino will shit out.

[sukebanboy Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close sukebanboy]

Could be interesting. Let's hope they're not just going to a do a quickie picture to cash in on the Tarantino project.

HEAVEN FORBID this would cross the producer's minds!!!

THE PLOT sounds like a Yojimbo remake...