First Character Poster For DJANGO UNCHAINED – Dr. King Schultz

On the heels of last week’s new trailer, Empire has premiered new character poster for Quentin Tarantino’s revenge-tinged spaghetti western Django Unchained, focusing on Christoph Waltz’s Dr. King Schultz.

The liberal German bounty hunter who brings Django (Jamie Foxx) along for a slavery master-killing rampage across the South, agrees to help him set free his wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington) in return for Django’s help in hunting down the vicious Brittle Brothers, because he needs Django to identify them.

Rumored to be getting its premiere in Rome next month, Django Unchained is scheduled for theatrical release on December 25th, 2012.

Written and directed by Tarantino, it would be an homage to Sergio Leone and John Huston, also starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Anthony LaPaglia, Jonah Hill, and Samuel L. Jackson, with a cameo from the director himself.

Set in the South two years before the Civil War, DJANGO UNCHAINED stars Academy Award®-winner Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Academy Award®-winner Christoph Waltz). Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead him to his bounty. The unorthodox Schultz acquires Django with a promise to free him upon the capture of the Brittles – dead or alive. Success leads Schultz to free Django, though the two men choose not to go their separate ways. Instead, Schultz seeks out the South’s most wanted criminals with Django by his side. Honing vital hunting skills, Django remains focused on one goal: finding and rescuing Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), the wife he lost to the slave trade long ago.

Django andSchultz’s search ultimately leads them to Calvin Candie (Academy Award®-nominee Leonardo DiCaprio), the proprietor of “Candyland,” an infamous plantation where slaves are groomed by trainer Ace Woody (Kurt Russell) to battle each other for sport. Exploring the compound under false pretenses, Django and Schultz arouse the suspicion of Stephen (Academy Award®-nominee Samuel L. Jackson), Candie’s trusted house slave. Their moves are marked, and a treacherous organization closes in on them. If Django and Schultz are to escape with Broomhilda, they must choose between independence and solidarity, between sacrifice and survival…