Quentin Tarantino wanted to make a Django Unchained sequel with this actor: Here’s why it never happened

Keeping the Kill Bill films aside, Quentin Tarantino isn't really into sequels, it seems. Though it's not all true, he did show interest in a Django Unchained sequel once, with Jamie Foxx returning as the titular Django with his natural abilities with a gun. But the director, who is likely to close his directing chapter after his tenth film (we are still waiting), thought of bringing swords to this story. He wanted Django to partner with Zorro.

After reading that name, there's only one actor that comes to mind today, Antonio Banderas, and Quentin Tarantino wanted to pair him with Foxx's 2012 character. Unfortunately, that never came to fruition. We cannot even say that it remained in development hell because the development never even began.

Foxx, Banderas, and Tarantino were all ready to board that bloody train if it ever departed; it didn't. And if the fans are still hoping this comes to fruition, let us disappoint them: it'll never happen. Why, if you ask? Visit that first line again. Tarantino's already down nine films; he isn't likely to kill his standalone streak with a sequel.

So why don't we have a Django and Zorro movie as a sequel?

The simple answer is that the idea for a Django Unchained sequel never really took off. It was all in Tarantino's mind, and it failed to hit the big screen. Banderas and Foxx were ready for this adventure, as their past comments about the topic make that clear. The former told USA Today once that,

"We've never worked together, but it would be great because of him, because of Jamie Foxx and because of (playing) Zorro again when he's a little bit older. It would be fantastic and funny and crazy."

While Tarantino explained Foxx's interest in a Django Unchained sequel during Comic-Con 2014, as The Guardian published,

"He was like: "Can we make a movie of this? I'm their man. Let's get Antonio. Let's do this.""

A bloody Don Alejandro de la Vega would be a sight to behold.

Instead of a Django Unchained sequel, we got another standalone Tarantino film

There could've been a Django Unchained sequel, though we aren't sure if it would've included Zorro in it or not. But the title sure would've been Django in White Hell. However, the story Quentin Tarantino had developed wasn't really a fit for Foxx's character, so he scrapped the idea.

Instead, we got The Hateful Eight (2015), where Samuel L. Jackson's Major Marquis Warren got shot in the... well, it was nuts, and it was a ballsy act by Channing Tatum's Jody Domergue, who was hidden under the floorboard.

Tarantino gave us a Django and Zorro story in another way anyway

Django and Zorro crossed paths in a comic book issue. (Image via Sony Pictures)

Despite the fact that a Django Unchained sequel film with Zorro in it never saw the light of day, Tarantino gave us one story where both characters crossed paths. He co-wrote a seven-issue comic book crossover, Django/Zorro, along with Matt Wagner (Mage and Grendel).

In this storyline, our Django is going about his usual day, punishing evil men, when he meets an old man, Zorro. But then it's Don Diego de la Vega, the original Zorro played by Anthony Hopkins, who is later succeeded by Banderas. Don't know how Quentin Tarantino would've handled this.