Kevin Costner Cast in Tarantino's Django Unchained?

After a career full of good-hearted family man roles, Kevin Costner is likely to join the cast of Quentin Tarantino’s dark film, Django Unchained.

He’s in talks to play Ace Woody, the sadistic slave driver who serves as the henchman to Leonardo DiCaprio’s character.

Costner will also join fellow cast members Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz and Samuel L. Jackson.

Tarantino is still looking for a saucy new female to play Broomhilda, Django’s wife in the film, who would take part in the various nude scenes.

Filming starts this fall, and the movie is aimed to hit theaters Christmas 2012.

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