Tom Wopat, known to us as Luke Duke from “The Dukes of Hazzard”, has landed the role of Marshall Gill Tatum in Tarantino’s 2012 movie, “Django Unchained.” This is a spaghetti n’ grits southern-western, promising bullets, havoc and revenge.
In a nutshell, freed slave Django teams up with his bounty-hunter mentor to rescue his enslaved wife from a sadistic plantation owner. The latter will be played by Leonardo DiCaprio.
Tom is no stranger to modern westerns, having played Colonel Slocum in the 2010 movie, Jonah Hex. While Tom’s main bread n’ butter has been Broadway musicals for many years, he continues to obtain roles in movies and television. Additionally, he performs live concerts in an array of venues, receiving critical acclaim for his smooth, crooning jazz vocals.
The Django Unchained cast also includes actor M.C. Gainey, who portrayed Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane in the 2005 big-screen Dukes of Hazzard movie.
Another Hazzard connection is that director/screenwriter Quentin Tarantino was once a student of James Best’s camera technique school. In his book Best in Hollywood: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful, James remarked that he told Tarantino he was a “lousy actor” and that he should “take up writing.” The rest, as they say, is history.
Django Unchained is in pre-production status, and is expected to be in theaters by December 2012.
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