Django Unchained: Name of Quentin Tarantino's new film project leaked - a western slave movie starring Christoph Waltz

After much speculation that Quentin Tarantino's next movie would be a spaghetti western, a picture of what appeared to be the front of the final script was leaked online yesterday.



Film bloggers went wild over what looked like the director's childish handwriting and Tarantino's agent later confirmed that the title will be Django Unchained.

The rumour that Inglourious Basterds star Christoph Waltz, 54, will be in the film was also validated.

Revealed: Quentin Tarantino, pictured having lunch at Cafe Med in West Hollywood yesterday, is set to start work on a new film, Django Unchained



Leaked: A twitter picture of what appeared to be the front of the final script was posted on Twitter yesterday my a mysterious user



Austrian actor Christoph Waltz has been confirmed to star in the film



'It's a western whose lead character is a former slave who is in league with Waltz to save his wife from an evil plantation owner,' Tarantino's agency WME said.

Tarantino, 48, has now handed in the final draft of the script to the Weinstein Company.

The movie is said to be inspired by not only the 1966 movie Django, directed by Sergio Corbucci, but also the unorthodox 2007 Japanese remake by director Takashi Miike, called Sukiyaki Western Django, which featured Tarantino in a cameo as a character named Ringo.

Django Unchained will reunite Tarantino with Pulp Fiction producer Stacey Sher with the movie scheduled to begin production in the autumn.

Tarantino's last film in 2009 Inglourious Basterds took $313.6 million at the box office worldwide.



It was nominated for eight Oscars. The 1994 cult classic Pulp Fiction raked in $214 million worldwide.

The mysterious Twitter picture was leaked by the equally mysterious Twitter user - @AgentTrainee.