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There is something sort of great about Jamie Foxx receiving a menacing stare from Jamie Foxx.

After weeks of bandying about names ranging from Will Smith (awesome!) to Chris Tucker (wait, what?), it sounds like Quentin Tarantino finally has the renegade slave of his dreams for his latest film, Django Unchained.

Deadline reports that Jamie Foxx has begun negotiations to star as the slave-turned-bounty hunter Django in Tarantino's latest. This comes after Stringer Bell himself, Idris Elba, was most recently rumored to have taken on the role. Instead, Elba signed on for Guillermo del Toro's latest, Pacific Rim.

Foxx was the last piece of the main puzzle for Django Unchained, with Christoph Waltz having already signed on to play Foxx's German bounty hunter mentor, and Leonardo DiCaprio on board to play the vile plantation owner, Calvin Candie. Samuel L. Jackson will play Candie's personal valet, who rounds up and keeps in line the various slaves Candie exploits through sexual trade and "Mandingo" style death matches.

By all accounts, that's a pretty incredible cast. Say what you will about some of Foxx's other recent career choices, Foxx can act. Tarantino isn't one to just sign on any famous actor just for the sake of having a name on board. While I'm honestly more curious to see who he gets for some of the smaller roles yet to be filled, it's great to see the main cast finally come together.

Foxx is a very capable actor. Also Tarantino has a knack for getting actors to get their shit together and give a decent performance, so I am confident this will be fine.

I really don't like Foxx. He's got such an ego.

Foxx is a great actor! Just look at Collateral. Plus I'm a firm believer that with a great director and story it can turn any actor into a great actor.

You lost me at Foxx and retrieved me at DiCaprio.

@SSully said:

Tarantino has a knack for getting actors to get their shit together and give a decent performance, so I am confident this will be fine.

This actually makes me wonder what it would have been like if he'd gotten Chris Tucker then.

Not really a fan of his, but this is WAY better than Chris Tucker.

Glad to see Waltz not playing the bad guy for once. Though I'll be expecting him to turn on Foxx the entire movie.

I was a fan of Foxx in Ray and Collateral, and seeing DiCaprio on this project also piques my interest.

I wouldn't mind Chris Tucker in a Tarantino movie if we were getting Fifth Element Chris Tucker. Arguably his best movie role next to Friday.

This headline is excellent, and also kind of racist.

Oh yeah... This movie will go over without incident here in the South.

Also, should have gone with Marlon Wayans. No one else could better capture the pain and oppression of a Civil War era slave than someone who was in both Requiem for a Dream and Dungeons & Dragons.

Oh goddammit. Idris Elba would have been an awesome choice.

Foxx can act, I just don't find him very appealing at all, on or off screen. A tad bummed about this news, but hopefully the rest of the cast, all people I like much more, will outweigh Foxx.

With the possible exception of Collateral, never liked anything Jamie Foxx has been a part of (and even then, Mann and Cruise were the reasons I liked that film). That includes Ray, his kind of embarrassing performance in The Soloist and his harmless appearance in Due Date. Just not a fan. I guess you can safely say everything else will make up for him, but still a definite hindrance in my mind.

I really just dislike Jamie Foxx. He's quickly become the actor everyone wants to shit on, but halfway through bashing him they remember the fuckin' Ray Charles movie and realize they have to give him credit for that.