When it was Deadline reports not only will Gordon-Levitt take the role, he’ll be joined by Anthony LaPaglia (“Without a Trace”) as the two play a pair of Aussie brothers.
LaPaglia will play Jano, the leader of a group of greedy Australians who encounter slave-turned-bounty hunter Django (Jamie Foxx) as they are escorting a group of slaves recently purchased as fighters. LaPaglia told Deadline he and Joseph Gordon-Levitt will play “mean brothers” in the film, which he describes as “wildly ambitious and imaginative” as it “deals with that subject matter in a way it hasn’t been dealt with before.”
The roles are said to be small (I still haven’t read the script) but vital toward the end of the film.
LaPaglia and Gordon-Levitt join a cast that includes Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christoph Waltz, Samuel L. Jackson, Gerald McRaney, Dennis Christopher, Kurt Russell, M.C. Gainey, Don Johnson, Tom Savini and Kerry Washington in a story centering on Django (Foxx), a freed slave who seeks to reunite with Broomhilda (Washington), his slave wife, a journey which will see him team up with Dr. King Schultz (Waltz), a German bounty hunter, to take down Calvin Candie (DiCaprio), an evil plantation owner.
Filming is expected to begin in New Orleans in January for a December 25, 2012 release.
