Perenial good guy Kevin Costner is negotiating to play a sadistic bad guy in Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained," an individual close to the project confirmed.
He's in talks for the role of Ace Woody, the sort of nasty that Tarantino specializes in.
The script focuses on a German dentist-turned-bounty hunter (to be played by Christoph Waltz). He buys a slave (Jamie Foxx) who can identify a man the bounty hunter is looking for.
The bounty hunter and the slave become friendly and set out to rescue the slave's wife from the vicious Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio is in that role).