A while back at work we acquired some spaghetti western movies from another company. I was particularly exited to work on this project because spaghetti westerns can be a lot of fun to work on.
When I initially read the list of titles we were acquiring to pick which titles, I noticed that some of them had "Django" in the title. This exited me a lot because I knew that Quentin Tarantino (who's movies I love) was coming out with a movie later that year called "Django Unchained." Upon further investigation, I found out that there was a spagetti western in 1966 called "Django" that became moderately popular for being incredibly violent and awesome. I also found out that this spawned over 30 unauthorized movies that also featured the title character of Django, but always played by a different actor. The movies that I worked on are two of those unauthorized sequels.
The downside with working with some older movies is that they usually don't come with high resolution images, or really anything at all to use for a redesign. So, that usually means using screenshots from the movie, which usually don't look as good, so please forgive any low-quality images you see.
Overall, I really enjoyed watching and working on these two movies (particularly Viva! Django).
FUN FACT:
The title song from "Viva! Django" is the main sample from the hit song "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley.
When I initially read the list of titles we were acquiring to pick which titles, I noticed that some of them had "Django" in the title. This exited me a lot because I knew that Quentin Tarantino (who's movies I love) was coming out with a movie later that year called "Django Unchained." Upon further investigation, I found out that there was a spagetti western in 1966 called "Django" that became moderately popular for being incredibly violent and awesome. I also found out that this spawned over 30 unauthorized movies that also featured the title character of Django, but always played by a different actor. The movies that I worked on are two of those unauthorized sequels.
The downside with working with some older movies is that they usually don't come with high resolution images, or really anything at all to use for a redesign. So, that usually means using screenshots from the movie, which usually don't look as good, so please forgive any low-quality images you see.
Overall, I really enjoyed watching and working on these two movies (particularly Viva! Django).
FUN FACT:
The title song from "Viva! Django" is the main sample from the hit song "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley.
I also did some alternate posters for the two movies inspired by the vintage style of the teaser poster for Django Unchained.