Week after week, the casting of Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming film Django Unchained is inching nearer to completion as we close in on its November production start date. Recently we learned that Kurt Russell would be replacing Kevin Costner in the role of Ace Woody, the right hand man of villain Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio). Since then we’ve seen a few more smaller roles filled out by the likes of Don Johnson, M.C. Gainey and FX guru Tom Savini. Now this week yet another actor is reportedly in talks to join the film: Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Variety reports that he intends to take the part, but he has some scheduling issues to work out before he can fully commit.

Word on the street is that the scheduling conflict has arisen from his press obligations for the bike messenger thriller Premium Rush, which hits theatres in January. However, just hours after this news story hit the web, Sony announced that Premium Rush had been pushed back to August. It would appear that JGL managed to pull some strings behind the scenes and free himself up. Costner, take note… THIS is how you respond when Quentin Tarantino asks you to be in his new movie.

It’s still unclear what role Joseph Gordon-Levitt will play in the film. We do know that Don Johnson will play a plantation owner named Spencer Bennett while Tom Savini and M.C. Gainey will play brothers Elvis and Big John Brittle, slave owners who rape Django’s wife Broomhilda and brand Django himself with the letter “R”. The script reportedly contains three Brittle brothers… will Joseph Gordon-Levitt play the third? Are you excited to see Joseph Gordon-Levitt join Django Unchained?