Quentin Tarantino to give Franco Nero's western an acting shot

Quentin Tarantino is set to return to acting with a role in Franco Nero's upcoming western The Angel, the Brute and the Wise. Nero, the Italian star of Sergio Corbucci's classic spaghetti western Django , will direct and star in the film. On casting Tarantino, he told Box Office Magazine : "I made him [Tarantino] sign a letter of intent saying that he would do the movie. I am sure that very soon we will do it." The director also confirmed that The Angel, the Brute and the Wise will be a homage to John Huston (who cast him in 1966's The Bible: In the Beginning) and Sergio Leone, the godfather of the spaghetti western genre. Tarantino is thought to be playing one of three bandits that Nero's character will kill with a shotgun whose bullets have been replaced with gold coins. On hearing the pitch the Pulp Fiction director reacted: "I love it! I can come with Robert Rodriguez and my friends to play them." Nero also responded to rumours that Tarantino plans to cast him in Django Unchained , the slave revenge drama starring Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio and Samuel L Jackson that was apparently inspired by Corbucci's 1966 original. "I think he is going to do this Django because of the movie I made many years ago," Nero said. "But I don't know if he will offer me the film or not ... I would be very happy, of course."