14 DAY TRIAL // 2014 kicked off on a very bad footing for writer / director Quentin Tarantino because the script he’d been working on for some time and which he had shared with only 6 people leaked and emerged online in its entirety.
Consequently, Tarantino decided that the creative act had been compromised and canceled all plans of turning the script into a movie, his eighth, much to the disappointment of fans worldwide.
Over the weekend at Comic-Con 2014 in San Diego, Tarantino made the announcement that he would make “The Hateful Eight” movie, despite stating the contrary a few months before. Hearing this, the audience broke into wild applause and gave him a standing ovation.
Considering how successful his previous Western “Django Unchained” was, is that really a surprise?
Riding the wave of excitement out of Comic-Con, The Weinstein Company has already released the first poster for the film, which you will see in full if you click the image above.
The artwork fits with the description from the leaked script: “A breathtaking 70MM filmed (as is the whole movie) snow covered mountain range. A stagerring opening vista, set to appropriate music. Then in the bottom left of the big 70MM SUPER CINEMASCOPE FRAME, we see a STAGECOACH being pulled by a team of SIX HORSES ...”
There’s a trail of blood behind the stagecoach so, yes, expect this to be as bloody and as violent a movie as Tarantino’s “Django.”
“The Hateful Eight” stars a bunch of Tarantino regulars like Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Madsen and Tim Roth, but also Kurt Russell, Amber Tamblyn and Bruce Dern. It tells the story of a group of bounty hunters returning with their human loot, and will be out in 2015.