It was just reported over at EW that rising star, and a person favorite of mine (yea, fine I have a crush on him, so sue me) Joseph Gordon-Levitt has pulled out of filming of the new Quentin Tarantino flick "Django Unchained". He has to back out due to scheduling conflicts with his movie Don Jon's Addiction. A film that Levitt is actually directing for his directorial debut. That film stars Levitt and Scarlett Johannson (Lost in Translation, The Avengers). Levitt was set to be in a very small supporting role in the Tarantino western movie. His role apparently would have only taken up maybe 10 minutes of screen time, according to the screenplay that has been leaked around.
Django Unchained is a drama from the masterful Tarantino (one of my favorite film makers) about recently freed slave (Jaime Foxx) who partners with a German bounty hunter (Oscar winner Christoph Waltz from Inglourious Bastards) to free his wife from a ruthless, evil slave owner played Leonardo DiCaprio (Titanic, The Departed). Tarantino is the single best screenwriter working today, in my humble opinion. That man has a way with words like no one else does. He can write scenes of dialog that play out like intense action scenes and it's freaking beautiful to watch unfold. Inglourious Bastards is a perfect example of this. How he didn't win an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for that film is beyond me.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt has been in the business since he was about 7 or 8 years old and probably first rose to fame from his work on the hilarious tv show about aliens in human form on earth, 3rd Rock From The Sun starring John Lithgow. As a kid he also appeared in such shows as Dark Shadows, The Powers That Be and Roseanne. He was also the star of the popular kids baseball film, Angels in the Outfield. But it's only in the past few years where he has really risen to fame appearing in such great films as The Lookout, (500) Days of Summer, Inception, and 50/50. He will be appearing in a few huge movies coming out this year: The Dark Knight Rises, Looper (Where he plays a young Bruce Willis), and Lincoln. He will also appear in the film Premium Rush..an action film about a bicycle deliver guy...don't know about that.
He really has developed into an awesome young actor and is now very reliable. Personally I thought his performance in the movie The Lookout was his best to date, but he was also very charming and wonderful in 500 Days of Summer opposite the fantastic Zooey Deschanel. It's sad he won't be a part of Django anymore, but it certainly would not stop from seeing the movie when it comes out in December of this year. The film will also star Sacha Baron Cohen, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington, Don Johnson and Kurt Russell.
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