A film that almost got shelved earlier in the year, 'Hateful Eight' has now been announced to continue, with its production to start in early 2015.
Despite news that he was shelving the project because agents of a circle of actors, which he gave the script to, apparently had leaked it. Here's a statement he made earlier in January:
"I'm very, very depressed," Tarantino said. "I finished a script, a first draft, and I didn't mean to shoot it until next winter, a year from now. I gave it to six people, and apparently it's gotten out today."
The title has since been teased, cancelled, revived and then officially announced within a year with a trailer to boot. A scan of the poster also appeared at Empire Magazine's website, revealing that the movie will be entirely shot on film in 70mm Super CinemaScope.
Here's the official synopsis for Hateful Eight:
"In The Hateful Eight, set six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Russell) and his fugitive Daisy Domergue (Leigh), race towards the town of Red Rock where Ruth, known in these parts as "The Hangman," will bring Domergue to justice. Along the road, they encounter two strangers: Major Marquis Warren (Jackson), a black former union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix (Goggins), a southern renegade who claims to be the town's new Sheriff.
Losing their lead on the blizzard, Ruth, Domergue, Warren and Mannix seek refuge at Minnie's Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie's, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. Bob (Bichir), who's taking care of Minnie's while she's visiting her mother, is holed up with Oswaldo Mobray (Roth), the hangman of Red Rock, cow-puncher Joe Gage (Madsen), and Confederate General Sanford Smithers (Dern). As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our eight travelers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock after all..."
Here's the official cast via Screen Rant:
- Samuel L. Jackson is Major Marquis Warren a.k.a. "The Bounty Hunter"
- Kurt Russell is John Ruth, a.k.a. "The Hangman"
- Jennifer Jason Leigh is Daisy Domergue, a.k.a. "The Prisoner"
- Walton Goggins is Chris Mannix, a.k.a. "The Sheriff"
- Demian Bichir is Bob, a.k.a. "The Mexican"
- Tim Roth is Oswaldo Mobray, a.k.a. "The Little Man"
- Michael Madsen is Joe Gage, a.k.a. "The Cow Puncher"
- Bruce Dern is General Sanford Smithers, a.k.a. "The Confederate"
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