Kevin is joining the all-star cast of Tarantino's Django Unchained, the filmaker's Western about a slave in the old South who teams with a German bounty hunter to search for his wife.
Costner joins a cast that includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Samuel L. Jackson and Christoph Waltz.
Costner, in a departure from his previous good-guy roles, portrays a sadistic trainer of slaves who are forced to fight in death matches for a plantation owner ( DiCaprio )

- credit to The Hollywood Reporter