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New Django Unchained Trailer

Christoph Waltz as Schultz and Jamie Foxx as Django in DJANGO UNCHAINED Credit: Andrew Cooper, SMPSP / The Weinstein Company

The Weinstein Company has unleashed a new trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s Western, Django Unchained, arriving in theaters on Christmas Day (because there’s nothing quite like a Tarantino movie to get us in the holiday mood, correct?). The new trailer focuses on Jamie Foxx as Django, Christoph Waltz as a bounty hunter, and Leonardo DiCaprio as an evil – and powerful – plantation owner, but we also see a little Kerry Washington thrown in as well as Samuel L. Jackson and Jonah Hill.
 
Watch the trailer:
 

 
The Plot:
 
Set in the South two years before the Civil War, Django Unchained stars Academy Award®-winner Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Academy Award®-winner Christoph Waltz). Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead him to his bounty. The unorthodox Schultz acquires Django with a promise to free him upon the capture of the Brittles – dead or alive.
 
Success leads Schultz to free Django, though the two men choose not to go their separate ways. Instead, Schultz seeks out the South’s most wanted criminals with Django by his side. Honing vital hunting skills, Django remains focused on one goal: finding and rescuing Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), the wife he lost to the slave trade long ago.
 
Django and Schultz’s search ultimately leads them to Calvin Candie (Academy Award®-nominee Leonardo DiCaprio), the proprietor of “Candyland,” an infamous plantation. Exploring the compound under false pretenses, Django and Schultz arouse the suspicion of Stephen (Academy Award®-nominee Samuel L. Jackson), Candie’s trusted house slave. Their moves are marked, and a treacherous organization closes in on them. If Django and Schultz are to escape with Broomhilda, they must choose between independence and solidarity, between sacrifice and survival…
 

This post was last modified on October 10, 2012 11:43 pm

Rebecca Murray: Journalist covering the entertainment industry for 23+ years, including 13 years as the first writer for About.com's Hollywood Movies site. Member of the Critics Choice Association (Film & TV Branches), Alliance of Women Film Journalists, and Past President of the San Diego Film Critics Society.
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