Costner Out, Russell In for Django Unchained

Kurt Russell, star of the theatrical Stargatemovie and John Carpenter’s The Thing, is in talks to replace Kevin Costner in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Russell will reportedly play a character named Ace who oversees a slave plantation in the American South in the 1800s. The plantation is owned by a depraved character played by Leonardo DiCaprio. The film’s plot focuses on a freed slave’s search for his wife. Jamie Foxx will play that slave.
Also in Django Unchained‘s star studded cast will be Samuel L. Jackson, Laura Cayouette and Christoph Waltz. Russell and Tarantino previously worked together on Death Proof.