Joseph Gordon-Levitt To Join Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’? Yes Please.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt has a busy year in 2012, what with playing Robin in the new Bat-Mann flick, and starring in that goofy-stupid-potentially enjoyable bike messenger flick. Now he may be adding another feather to his cap: acting in His Majesty Tarantino’s spaghetti western slave liberation movie thing.
The latest actor to flirt with Quentin Tarantino and his new anti-slavery ‘Southern,’ Django Unchained, is Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The actor reportedly wants to do the film, and is ready to take a role pending the resolution of some scheduling issues. One of those scheduling issues would have been press commitments for Premium Rush, but that movie was just pushed back to August, so that’s one hurdle gone. Hit the break for some speculation on his role.
Variety gives up that info but doesn’t have any details on what role he might play. There are a couple open roles at this point, but I hope JGL ends up playing a young man named Scotty Harmony. The character is described as a meek little ‘fatboy’ in the script, but I think Levitt could do well by the character, even taking his physical difference into account. Scotty is the character to whom Django’s wife Broomhilda ends up sold, and the pair of them are part of a long interlude in the story that is one of the script’s strongest and weirdest parts.
This makes me even more excited for next December’s glory.