Miike remakes Django

[Charlie Parker]

This could possibly be awful, I dunno. He did sorta a 'western' with Rainy Dog, but anything that doesn't feature goblins or Manga influence is OK BY ME.
Django is amazing at any rate.

Okay, okay, nobody likes a remake but Takashi Miike's SUKIYAKI WESTERN: DJANGO gets a pass because it's a freak fest of largest proportions. A remake of Sergio Corbucci's legendary exploitation spaghetti western, DJANGO, this is a Japanese Western, shot in English and featuring Quentin Tarantino in a prominent role.

Hideaki Ito, Koichi Sato, Masanobu Ando and Kaori Momoi star in this flick that mixes the Genpei War with the Wild West as the Minamoto and Taira gangs turn innocent folks caught in their gang war crossfire into swiss cheese until a mysterious gunman, played by Ito, comes to their rescue. The cast has endured two months of English training as well as horseback riding lessons and gun handling courses but, as Miike says, "Real actors are generally hardcore masochists, and the tougher it gets the harder they work to battle through."

Tarantino will be a major non-selling point for a lot of people and Miike describes him in a way he hasn't been described in about ten years, "He's a guy who doesn't play by Hollywood rules, so I thought he'd suit this film." Tarantino probably is the Hollywood rules these days, but that's okay. Miike's been too busy making actual movies to notice what's happening in our backwaters industry.

Miike flew to the States to ask Tarantino to appear and the Big Chinned One will play a mysterious gunfighter named Ringo who fights with a female cast member at the start of the film.

To top it all off, the theme song will be an enka version of the original DJANGO theme, sung by Saburo Kitajima. Shooting is expected to wrap in December and the movie is set for a Fall 2007 release.

[Tweez]

please no. Django is untouchable. fuckin sick of remakes.

[McLeary]

It's intriguing, at any rate.

[PapaZeb]

Miike's got a good enough hit/miss rate that I'll be tempted.

His pure action stuff is hefty good - Ichi the Killer only fails when it starts getting into the mentality of Ichi - Kakihara's torture scenes are some of the most painful in recent memory, and the action is no-bad.

[Charlie Parker]

I can't stand Ichi, it's not the sort of movie I like, Graveyard Of Honour on the otherhand..

[PapaZeb]

http://www.screendaily.com/ScreenDai...33100&Category

Shooting just finished this week - the article above seems to state that it's not a Django remake but an homage to the original film - we'll all know better when it gets released to the internets in September, err I mean released in Japan in September and then no word on further releases but given the nature of the title it'll probably get a broader release than some of Miike's other films.

[Charlie Parker]

Tarantino's an arse

[MarkMono]

I thought he was quite good in From dusk Till Dawn.

[Charlie Parker]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ep92bhnoWvI&v3

[¡Punk!]

Why are people so opposed to remakes? Confuses me that. Should "The Merchant of Venice" or "A Perfect Husband" only have got one run incase the other versions were shite? Django's amazing but it's not even that good a story behind it - I'd be interested to see a different take on it and if it's shite: who gives a fuck? It doesn't ruin the original.

[Charlie Parker]

Take away the machine gun n' mud and you get a Fistful Of Dollars

[MarkMono]

Anyone seen this yet?

[TheFallenAngel]

Ach I came in here thinking a movie about Django Reinhardt.................

[Charlie Parker]

I've got it but yet to watch it

[metallideth]

Doesn't offend me anymore than the myriad of unofficial Django sequels that got made in Italy and Spain in the 70s. Which is to say, I'm not really bothered...apart from that reinterpretation of the original theme song. Some things should be left alone!