New Django Unchained Trailer Sets the Stage for a Revival of the Western (+VIDEO)

It appears that Hollywood is reviving the Western genre, if Django Unchained and The Lone Ranger are any indication of things to come.

In the latest trailer for Django, writer and director Quentin Tarantino wastes no time setting the stage for star Jamie Foxx, whose wife is abducted by a Mississippi plantation owner named Calvin Candie. Foxx's character, Django, becomes a bounty hunter and trains under the tutelage of Dr. King Shultz to take revenge on the villian, depicted by Leonardo DiCaprio. Shultz is played by Chrisopher Waltz, who audiences may recognize as the heartless Nazi Col. Hans Landa from 2009's Inglorious Basterds. Other co-stars include Kerry Washington, Samuel Jackson, and Jonah Hill.

In an interview with Collider, Jamie Foxx states that Tarantino's dialogue has a musical quality to it. "Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, 'You're hip-hop!' You keep seeing surprises, and a clip here and there, because Quentin is hip-hop. A hip-hop artist will drop a single, leak something over here, and drop something over there 'cause he knows it's hot. He's on the spot with the way he does things. The way his dialogue is, it is a musical."

Foxx reveals that Quentin even rerote the end of the movie "on the spur of the moment". He says, "[Tarantino] blew up the house and said, 'My ending doesn't work.' We were like, 'What do you wanna do?' He said, 'Give me a second,' and he was walking on the rubble, and then said, 'Okay, I've got it!' He went to his trailer, and then came back with the end of the movie. It was dope! Nobody does that. When a writer writes a movie, he goes and gets a cabin and is there for nine months, and then comes down with the tablets. This dude just went in his trailer [and did it]. That's the difference. He has a musical quality where he's riffing, but he's riffing as a genius would, like Mozart."

Django Unchained releases on December 25, 2012.