Twenty years after the events in the first Django, the eponymous deadly gunslinger has left his violent life behind and become a monk named Brother Ignatius. Living in seclusion in a monastery, he learns from a dying former lover that he has a young daughter, who has been kidnapped along with other children by a ruthless Hungarian aristocrat, arms dealer and slave trader known as El Diablo (The Devil) Orlowsky. The children and other prisoners are exploited working in Orlowsky's silver mine, from which he hopes to get rich from the spoils. Determined to rescue his daughter, Django goes to war against Orlowsky's private mercenary army.
Django Strikes Again was conceived concurrently with Duccio Tessari's Tex and the Lord of the Deep; both projects were intended to represent a revival of the Spaghetti Western genre. Following the commercial failure of Tex, Sergio Corbucci, who had co-written Django Strikes Again and had initially agreed to direct it, refused to partake in its production.[2] Shot on location in Colombia, the film represents the final screen appearance of Christopher Connelly, who died of cancer a year after its release.[2] Nero stated in a 2012 interview that he is "not happy with the film" and called it "a bit flat".[3]
Release
Django Strikes Again was released theatrically in West Germany on November 6, 1987 as Djangos Rückkehr.[4]
Sequel
Following a 2014 attempt to mount the project,[5] it was reported in May 2016 that Franco Nero would reprise his role in a third and final outing as the titular character, entitled Django Lives!; the film was to be set 50 years after the events of the original installment, and John Sayles was attached to write the screenplay and direct.[6][7][8]
