According to Deadline, Kevin Costner has removed himself from consideration for a role in Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained,” supposedly because of his very busy schedule.

That being said, Tarantino, whom I am not a big fan of, seems to understand what it is that the moving-going public wants to see.  After all, his Inglourious Basterds pulled in just over $300 million worldwide, on a budget of $70 million dollars.

I could be talking out of my ass here (disturbing imagery, that), but it seems to me that if Quentin Tarantino wants to put you in a movie, you rearrange your schedule and make it happen.  Sure, the production would have dominated his life for two months or so, but it’s not like he couldn’t use playing what seems to be an important role in a film, that if it follows the trajectory of most of Tarantino’s others, will be a hit.