We haven’t heard an awful lot about Kevin Costner in the last few years. However he seems to have decided that he doesn’t have to be the leading man, and as a result he’s getting some juicy parts. It appears he’ll be going from playing Jonathan kent in Man Of Steel to Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained.
Deadline reports that Costner is is talks to play Ace Woody, a ‘sadistic trainer of the male fighting slaves who entertain the white patrons of Candyland as well as the female slaves who are forced to be prostitutes. The club and ranch are owned by Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Ace Woody is the one who pits the “mandingo” fighters against one another, and has little qualms about mistreating and even killing the slaves who don’t measure up.’
The film is about a freed slave (Jamie Foxx) in the Old West who hires a German bounty hunter to find his missing wife, and goes up against Calvin Candie’s sadistic empire. Samuel L. Jackson is up for the role of Calvin Candie’s house slave, while Christoph Waltz is likely to play the bounty hunter.
Shooting is likely to begin early this autumn.