RZA joins 'Django Unchained' cast

RZAQuentin Tarantino is reaching to a familiar face for any part in "Django Unchained," tapping his "Kill Bill" composer RZA for any supporting role within the Weinstein Company's spaghetti Western. RZA will have Thaddeus, a violent slave focusing on a Mississippi plantation. Furthermore, "Frozen River" star Misty Upham continues to be cast like a buying and selling publish-bar owner named Minnie. RZA obtained both "Kill Bill: Volume 1" and "Kill Bill: Volume 2" for Tarantino, who's showing RZA's directorial debut "The Guy Using the Iron Fists," which RZA co-authored with Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" star Eli Roth. RZA stars within the Universal pic alongside Russell Crowe, in addition to Tarantino alums Pam Grier and Lucy Liu. Best referred to as p facto leader from the Wu-Tang Clan, RZA has spent the final many years building his feature resume and studying top-tier company directors, with looks in Ridley Scott's "American Gangster," Judd Apatow's "Funny People," Todd Phillips' "DeadlineInch and Paul Haggis' "The Following 72 Hours.Inch Thesp, who lately wrapped production on Paramount's "G.I. Joe 2," will quickly be observed in "A Really Harold and Kumar three dimensional Christmas." RZA will even join David Duchovny around the approaching season of Showtime's "Californication." RZA is repped by ICM and attorney Joe Carlone, while Upham's deal was brokered by Blaine Johnston and Kevin McGinley of Rogues Gallery Management. Contact Shaun Sneider at shaun.sneider@variety.com