Genre mash-up director Quentin Tarantino's new film is due out on Dec. 25 with a story, written by Tarantino, of an escaped slave who returns to try to free his wife from an evil slave owner. Jamie Foxx will play the slave Django, while Leonardo DiCaprio plays the slave owner Calvin Candie and Tarantino favorites Samuel L. Jackson and Christoph Waltz make appearances.

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