DJANGO LIVES! With Actor Franco Nero Returning To Star
Myriad Pictures is reportedly reviving iconic spaghetti Western legend, Django, with Syrreal Entertainment, GMBH and Fast Draw Films, LLC. The new film was announced last week with word that Pandorum helmer Christian Alvart will direct the original screeplay being titled Django Lives!, written by Academy Award nominee John Sayles with Myriad also representing the film internationally for buyers at Cannes. The news comes roughly a year since Sayles was attached to the script with actor Franco Nero, who laid claim to the title role in Sergio Corbucci’s 1966 film, in mind for the role, and will officially reprise. The film will see him remerging once again as the titular nomadic stranger living in 1914 California, a time far different from the dying Wild West, now the subject of Hollywood’s bustling period of Western narrative storytelling. En route to the small town of Matanzas, Django will find himself facing off […]