Rumor: Jamie Foxx Is Tops For ‘Django Unchained’ Lead, DiCaprio Definitely In.

There is some super-news-rumor time today regarding the next Tarantino flick. While it was thought that Will Smith may be the male lead in the movie, new news has cropped up. It’s Jamie Foxx time! Oh shit. I was talked into liking Smith in the role, but I definitely love the idea of Foxx. Also and just as exciting is the report that DiCaprio is ‘definitely signed.’

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One of the hottest films casting at the moment is Quentin Tarantino‘s spaghetti Western-influenced ‘Southern,’ Django Unchained. Previous Tarantino collaborators Samuel L. Jackson and Christoph Waltz are already on board and Leonardo DiCaprio is rumored to join. However, one star that likely won’t be joining the party is Will Smith, who was previously reported as the frontrunner for the title role. Now a new report suggests that Jamie Foxx may be taking over the part originally intended for Smith, and that DiCaprio is “definitely signed” to play the villain.

Showbiz 411 (via The Playlist) dropped the tantalizing bits in a brief item yesterday, but it’s worth taking both pieces of news with a grain of salt as they don’t mention where they got their intel. (Though they mention speaking with Jackson, they do not name him as the source for either piece of news.) The DiCaprio news is good to hear, if not surprising. If the news about Foxx is true, he seems like a solid choice. Foxx has already demonstrated his dramatic acting chops with his notable turns in Ray and Dreamgirls, and he’s a bigger, more prestigious name than either Idris Elba or Chris Tucker, both of whom were also up for the Django part.

Thoughts?