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EW posted stills and a detailed synopsis of Quentin Tarantino’s next film, “Django Unchained”, which sounds like a departure from Tarantino’s standard template of “uplifting family adventure” and into some unexpected realm of “bizarre, stylized hyperviolence”:

After being sent to a chain gang after rebelling against his owners, Django is recruited by a German bounty hunter (Inglorious Basterds Oscar winner Christoph Waltz) to help him settle an old score. Django has information that Waltz’s Dr. King Schultz needs, so the German mercenary liberates the slave and promises that if he helps him kill the Brittle brothers, Django’s old owners, he’ll make it worth his while.

Along the way, the duo end up crossing paths with Leonardo DiCaprio’s hammer-wielding character (below), a deranged plantation owner named Calvin Candie, who likes to make his toughest slaves fight to the death in gladiatorial combat.

So…it’s not a Django Reinhardt biopic? Or maybe it is one and that dude lived a CRAZY life?

Regardless, Tarantino has more than earned a “going to see it excitedly no matter what it is” Pixar-pass in my book, so hearing these details just makes that existing wanting-to-see-it slightly more specific. It’s just amusing that at this point, you can hear the synopsis of a new Tarantino movie and unironically think “Escaped slave and bounty hunter cross paths with gladiator-lording plantation owner? Sounds pretty standard.”

(More at EW.com)