FILM · 2012 · USA

Django Unchained

Directed by

Quentin Tarantino

Runtime

165 min

Studio

The Weinstein Company, Columbia Pictures

63 archived facts · 8 topics · 2 sources · Last reviewed Oct 2026

With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

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8 Facts From Behind the Scenes of Django Unchained

1. #019

   Neither the character Scotty Harmony nor the poker game in which he loses Broomhilda to Candie appears in the final cut of Django Unchained.

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2. #021

   In a January 2013 interview with Vanity Fair, costume designer Sharen Davis said much of Django Unchained's wardrobe drew on spaghetti Westerns and other works of art.

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3. #022

   For Django's wardrobe, Sharen Davis and Quentin Tarantino watched the television series Bonanza and referred to it frequently, even hiring the hatmaker who designed the hat worn by Bonanza's Little Joe, played by Michael Landon.

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4. #023

   Sharen Davis described Django's look as a "rock-n-roll take on the character", with his sunglasses inspired by Charles Bronson's character in The White Buffalo (1977).

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5. #030

   A sub-plot centered on Zoë Bell's masked tracker was scripted for Django Unchained but cut and left unfilmed because of time constraints.

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6. #033

   Fred Raskin took over editing duties on Django Unchained. He had previously served as an assistant editor on Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill.

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7. #038

   One of writer-director Quentin Tarantino's favorite stuntmen appears as a tracker with a bandana hiding his face.

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8. #056

   For the montage sequence of Dr. King Schultz and Django beginning their partnership as bounty hunters, writer-director Quentin Tarantino played the background music live on set during filming.

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