History Trivia / DjangoUnchained

** Creator/JonahHill was offered the role of Scotty Harmony, a gambler who loses Broomhilda to Candie in a poker game, but turned it down due to scheduling conflicts with ''Film/TheWatch2012''. Creator/SachaBaronCohen was also offered the role, but declined in order to appear in ''Film/LesMiserables2012''. Neither Scotty nor the poker game appear in the final cut of the film. Hill eventually did in the film as one of the Klansmen.

* TheOtherDarrin: Pascal Nzonzi dubbed Stephen in European French instead of Creator/SamuelLJackson's usual voice (including previous Tarantino films), Creator/ThierryDesroses.

* CareerResurrection: Creator/JamieFoxx was in a career downturn after his Oscar victory for 2004's ''Film/{{Ray}}'', [[Film/{{Stealth}} with]] [[Film/{{Jarhead}} most]] [[Film/MiamiVice of]] [[Film/TheKingdom his]] [[Film/TheSoloist films]] [[Film/LawAbidingCitizen afterwards]] [[Film/ValentinesDay becoming]] [[Film/DueDate flops]] critically and/or commercially (besides ''Film/{{Dreamgirls}}''). This film's success placed him back on the A-list.

* OnSetInjury: During one scene in a dining room, Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio, playing Candie, gives a passionate speech, punctuated by slamming his hand on the table. However, one take had a shot glass under that hand, which shattered on impact, causing several glass shards to puncture his palm. Still in character, [=DiCaprio=] ignored the pain and blood, and continued his rant to the end of the take. His costars were horrified and amazed by [=DiCaprio's=] commitment to "the show must go on".

** Tarantino had originally wanted Creator/WillSmith to play Django. The two of them discussed it a lot, but according to Tarantino the script "wasn’t 100 percent right" at the time, and after agreeing to wait, he started testing other actors and decided that Jamie Foxx was perfect. Specifically, Smith has said he wanted the movie to focus more on Django, as he didn't feel the character was the true lead in the existing script. Creator/DenzelWashington was considered, but deemed too old for the part. Creator/CubaGoodingJr lobbied for the role, but was turned down. Creator/MichaelKWilliams turned down the role due to his commitment to ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire''. Creator/IdrisElba, Creator/TyreseGibson, Creator/TerrenceHoward, and Creator/ChrisTucker were also considered.
** There was talk of splitting the film into two parts, like ''Film/KillBill'', but Tarantino eventually rejected the idea and cut a whole lot of the planned film. Among what was cut out includes an entire backstory for Creator/ZoeBell's character, which explains that she wears a bandanna over her face to hide a [[ScarsAreForever gruesome injury]]. Tarantino has stated interest in releasing an extended cut to restore some scenes that were left on the cutting room floor.

* CreatorChosenCasting: Creator/QuentinTarantino wrote the script with Creator/ChristophWaltz, Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio, and Creator/SamuelLJackson in mind.

* HeyItsThatSound: During the shootout scene, Ren's scream from ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' is heard for Broomhilda screaming.
-->'''Moguy:''' Nigger's gone crazy! Help!

** Creator/JamesRemar features at the beginning of the film as slave trader Ace Speck and later as Butch Pooch, bodyguard to Calvin J. Candie. Which leads to one of the best meta-examples of an IronicEcho as [[spoiler:Christoph Waltz kills Remar in the beginning, and in return Remar kills him back in the end]].

* BannedInChina: Despite being heavily edited and shortened by the Chinese censorship board, the Chinese government endorsed this movie for carrying out their anti-American sentiment making slavery in 19th-century America a central subject as while the United States government has spent many decades accusing China of violating basic human rights at least since the late 1940s. Ironically, Chinese censors removing much of the violence and sex would only make Django's history component look whitewashed and depict slavery as less brutal and inhumane than it was in reality to the viewers. That being said, Django hardly made any money from the Chinese box office.

** Creator/JonahHill was offered the role of Scotty Harmony, a gambler who loses Broomhilda to Candie in a poker game, but turned it down due to scheduling conflicts with ''Film/TheWatch2012''. Creator/SachaBaronCohen was also offered the role, but declined in order to appear in ''Film/LesMiserables2012''. Neither Scotty nor the poker game appear in the final cut of the film. Hill later appeared in the film as one of the klansmen.

** Creator/JamieFoxx gets to show off his horsemanship in ways that are not strictly plot relevant, but cool anyway. The horse Django rides is one of Foxx's real ones.
** Aside from his native German, Dr. Schultz speaks fluently English and French, just as Christoph Waltz.

* CreatorChosenCasting: Creator/QuentinTarantino wrote the script with Creator/ChristophWaltz, Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio and Creator/SamuelLJackson in mind.

* CutSong: Music/FrankOcean wrote an original song for the soundtrack, which Tarantino described as "a fantastic ballad that was truly lovely and poetic in every way", that couldn't find a scene to accommodate it. It eventually saw public release through his Tumblr as "Wiseman".

* DirectedByCastMember: In the Latin American Spanish dub produced in Mexico, Gerardo García was the ADR director and one of the additional voices.
* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: Although the Sandy Hook shootings [[DownplayedTrope didn't result in this movie postponing its release date]], in spite of its violent content, the film's Los Angeles premiere scheduled to take place on December 18, 2012 was reduced to a private screening for the cast and crew along with their relatives with the press being asked to attend another screening.

** American Quentin Tarantino as an Australian miner. And surprisingly good, too. Any time he says "black" it does sound vaguely South African, but lines like "You got something to say, mate, you say it," are pretty much spot on. Qudos to Quentin!

* HeyItsThatSound: During the shootout scene, Ren's scream from ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' is heard for Broomhilda von Shaft screaming.
-->'''Moguy''': Nigger's gone crazy! Help!
* IronyAsSheIsCast: Creator/JonahHill, who is Jewish, plays a klansman.
* LeslieNielsenSyndrome: Prior to this role Don Johnson was mainly known for dramatic roles. Since then he has had many notable comedic roles.
* MissingTrailerScene: Interesting example. As per usual on a Quentin Tarantino soundtrack release, there is dialogue from the film interspersed throughout. In two instances, the tracks "In that case, Django, After you," and "5,000 Dollar Niggas" are from alternate or deleted scenes.

** Creator/ChristophWaltz reprised his role for the German dub, as he usually does with his original English-language roles.

** Creator/SamuelLJackson as Stephen, the Uncle Tom houseslave, who is old, decrepit, and not at all heroic.
** Creator/ChristophWaltz, on the other hand, plays Schultz, TheMentor and one of the most unambiguously moral characters in the film, a particularly sharp departure from [[Film/InglouriousBasterds his previous collaboration]] with Tarantino.
* OnSetInjury: During one scene in a dining room, Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio, playing as Candie, gives a passionate speech, punctuated by slamming his hand on the table. However, one take had a shot glass under that hand, which shattered on impact, causing several glass shards to puncture his palm. Still in character, [=DiCaprio=] ignored the pain and blood, and continued his rant to the end of the take. His costars were horrified and amazed by [=DiCaprio's=] commitment to "the show must go on".
* ThrowItIn: Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio accidentally cut his hand on broken glass in the scene where Candie slams his fist on the table, but continued with the scene. He can be seen picking broken glass from his increasingly bloody hand for the duration of the shot. The detail was incorporated into the rest of the scene, with Candie smearing (now fake) blood onto Broomhilda's face. Candie wears a bandage afterwards up until his death scene.

** Creator/KevinCostner, Creator/KurtRussell, Creator/JosephGordonLevitt, and Creator/SachaBaronCohen were originally cast before pulling out. Russell even shot some scenes but left due to CreativeDifferences (Tarantino was reworking the script during filming and cut much of Russell's character out).
** Tarantino had originally wanted Creator/WillSmith to play Django. The two of them discussed it a lot, but according to Tarantino the script "wasn’t 100 percent right" at the time and after agreeing to wait, he started testing other actors and decided that Jamie Foxx was perfect. Specifically, Smith has said he wanted the movie to focus more on Django, as he didn't feel the character was the true lead. Creator/DenzelWashington was considered, but deemed too old for the part. Creator/CubaGoodingJr lobbied for the role, but was turned down. Creator/MichaelKWilliams turned down the role due to his commitment to ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire''. Creator/IdrisElba, Creator/TyreseGibson, Creator/TerrenceHoward and Creator/ChrisTucker were also considered.
** There was talk of splitting the film into two parts, like ''Film/KillBill'', but Tarantino eventually rejected the idea and cut a whole lot of the planned film. Among what was cut out includes an entire backstory for Creator/ZoeBell's character, which explains that she wears a bandanna over her face to hide a [[ScarsAreForever gruesome injury]]. Tarantino has stated interest in releasing an extended cut restoring some scenes that were left on the cutting room floor.
** Originally the Candyland trackers had a much larger part to play, but much was cut from them to make ''Django'' into a single film. Bell's tracker, for example, was originally going to have an entire fight scene devoted to her, in which it would have been revealed that she's missing the bottom half of her face.

** In the final draft of the script, Stephen was written to be a more brutal character; in the barn scene after Django was captured at Candie's mansion, he was supposed to torture Django by burning off his nipples with a hot poker. The dialogue from this scene, spoken by Creator/SamuelLJackson, can be heard on the film's music soundtrack.
** In the finished draft of the script, Billy Crash was written to be much more brutal and sadistic. A scene of him raping and tormenting Broomhilda in his cabin was cut from the final film. His original death from Django was also much different. Instead of shooting Crash to death at the end, Django takes a large knife and throws it at his chest as he leaves his cabin after his assault on Broomhilda.

** Then there is Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio accidentally cutting his hand on broken glass. It was thrown in, so he wears a bandage through the rest of the film.

* HeyItsThatSound: During the shootout scene, Ren's scream from ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' is heard for a black woman screaming.

* CareerResurrection: Gave a big one to Creator/DonJohnson. Also [[LeslieNielsenSyndrome reinvented him as a comedic actor]] as opposed to the drama roles he was primarily known for before.

* OnSetInjury: During one scene in a dining room, Creator/LeonardoDiCarpio, playing as Candie, gives a passionate speech, punctuated by slamming his hand on the table. However, one take had a shot glass under that hand, which shattered on impact, causing several glass shards to puncture his palm. Still in character, [=DiCaprio=] ignored the pain and blood, and continued his rant to the end of the take. His costars were horrified and amazed by [=DiCaprio's=] commitment to "the show must go on".

* ImageSource: This film provides the page image for:
** SouthernGentleman

** Michael Bacall as Smitty Bacall.

** Ted Neeley, a professional singer, performs a rather eerie "Trackers Chant."

** Franco Nero was rumored for the role of Calvin Candie, but instead was given a cameo appearance as a minor character. Nero suggested that he play a mysterious horseman who haunts Django in visions and is revealed in an ending flashback to be Django's father; Tarantino opted not to use the idea.

** Jamie Foxx gets to show off his horsemanship in ways that are not strictly plot relevant, but cool anyway. The horse Django rides is one of Foxx's real ones.

** Music/FrankOcean wrote an original song for the soundtrack, which Tarantino described as "a fantastic ballad that was truly lovely and poetic in every way", that couldn't find a scene to accommodate it. It eventually saw public release through his Tumblr as "Wiseman".

** Then there is Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio accidentally cutting his hand on broken glass. It was [[ThrowItIn thrown in]], so he wears a bandage through the rest of the film.

** Creator/JonahHill was offered the role of Scotty Harmony, a gambler who loses Broomhilda to Candie in a poker game, but turned it down due to scheduling conflicts with ''Film/TheWatch''. Creator/SachaBaronCohen was also offered the role, but declined in order to appear in ''Film/LesMiserables2012''. Neither Scotty nor the poker game appear in the final cut of the film. Hill later appeared in the film as one of the klansmen.

* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: The film's Los Angeles premiere scheduled to take place on December 18, 2012 was reduced to a private screening for the cast and crew along with their relatives (with the press being asked to attend another screening) due to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, although the cancellation was unrelated to the violent content depicted in the movie.