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Los Angeles - Will Smith is being pursued by Quentin Tarantino for a role in Django Unchained.
The Men in Black actor has been offered the role informally by the director, who is said to have written a role with him in mind.
The movie tells the tale of a slave who becomes a bounty hunter on a mission to save his wife, Broomhilda, from her master.
Significant pay cut
Christoph Waltz is already in line to play the role of Dr King Shultz, and Will - who has turned away from big screen roles in favour of working behind the scenes on movies in recent years - is thought to be seriously considering the party as he is keen to diversify his work, despite it meaning a significant pay cut.
Samuel L. Jackson is also being considered for the character of Stephen, a manipulative servant to the leading bad guy.
Will recently signed up to appear in M. Night Shayamalan's new sci-fi film set 1 000 years in the future alongside his son Jaden, and is working on the third instalment of Men in Black.
