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Costner joins cast of Tarantino's next

Kevin Costner preforms with his band Modern West at Muhammad Ali's Celebrity Fight Night XVII to benefit the Barrow Neurological Institute at the Desert Ridge Marriott in Phoenix, AZ., March 19,2011. UPI /Art Foxall
Kevin Costner preforms with his band Modern West at Muhammad Ali's Celebrity Fight Night XVII to benefit the Barrow Neurological Institute at the Desert Ridge Marriott in Phoenix, AZ., March 19,2011. UPI /Art Foxall | License Photo

LOS ANGELES, July 18 (UPI) -- Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has cast Kevin Costner in his upcoming spaghetti western, "Django Unchained," The Hollywood Reporter said.

Costner has starred in "Wyatt Earp," "Dances with Wolves," "The Postman" and "Open Range."

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Tarantino's films include "Inglourious Basterds," "Kill Bill," "Pulp Fiction" and "Reservoir Dogs."

The "Django" cast already includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Samuel L. Jackson, and Christoph Waltz.

Set in the Old South, the movie is about a slave who teams up with a German bounty hunter to find his wife, The Hollywood Reporter said.

Costner will play a trainer of slaves forced to fight in death matches for a plantation owner.

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