Two-time Oscar-nominee John Sayles is reaching back — way back — for his next directorial project, as the filmmaker is currently set to write and direct the spaghetti western sequel Django Lives nearly 30 years after its predecessor hit movie screens, EW has confirmed.

Italian actor Franco Nero, who originated the character of Django in the 1966 film of the same name, is also set to return for the third installment in the series, as Showbiz411 first reported. A second film, Django Strikes Again, was released in 1987, though dozens of sequels loosely tied to the original film (despite not featuring Nero) have been produced over the years. After playing a Union soldier who becomes involved in a violent feud between a gang of Southern racists and a group of Mexican revolutionaries in Django, Nero went on to star in movies like Die Hard 2 (1990), Letters to Juliet (2010), and even had a voice role in Disney’s Cars 2 (2011).