Quentin Tarantino wants Will Smith for `Django Unchained`

Washington: Quentin Tarantino has reportedly finished penning the script for his eighth film `Django Unchained`, a Spaghetti Western and wants Will Smith to play the lead role.

According to Tarantino Archives, the film will pay tribute to Italian director Sergio Corbucci`s original `Django` and Japanese filmmaker, Takashi Miike`s `Sukiyaki Western Django`, reports Contactmusic. Some online reports suggest that the film will center on a freed slave who under the mentoring of a German bounty hunter, becomes trained as an equally cutthroat assassin, ready to seek revenge against the owners of a plantation. Tarantino has promised to release the movie before `Kill Bill: Vol 3` scheduled for release in 2014. ANI