It's no surprise that director Quentin Tarantino's slavery themed revenge film "Django Unchained" is doing well at the box office. In an interview with The Root, the director reveals his plans for a new film about a regiment of black WWII soldiers seeking vengeance after being wronged by their commanding officers.
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"Django Unchained" has sparked controversy about Tarantino's portrayal of slavery, and the director has long faced criticism over his character's use of the n-word. Spike Lee, a well-known critic of Tarantino's work, recently called Tarantino's work "disrespectful." Lee also wrote on Twitter, " American Slavery Was Not A Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a Holocaust. My Ancestors Are Slaves. Stolen From Africa. I Will Honor Them.""My original idea for Inglourious Basterds way back when was that this [would be] a huge story that included the [smaller] story that you saw in the film, but also followed a bunch of black troops, and they had been f*ked over by the American military and kind of go apesht. They basically -- the way Lt. Aldo Raines (Brad Pitt) and the Basterds are having an 'Apache resistance' -- [the] black troops go on an Apache warpath and kill a bunch of white soldiers and white officers on a military base and are just making a warpath to Switzerland."
According to Tarantino, the script is "ready to go; I just have to write the second half of it."
