14 DAY TRIAL // Quentin Tarantino’s 8th film, “The Hateful Eight,” turned out to be a production nightmare when a completed version of the script leaked online in early 2014 and was passed around freely before he could plug said leak.
Tarantino was so furious about the whole thing that, for a few months, he insisted he wouldn’t be doing the movie anymore: there was no sense in doing it since the story was out there and he couldn’t possibly re-write the script to keep up with the initial production schedule.
Eventually, he had a change a heart, so “The Hateful Eight” is coming out in theaters in December 2015. No word yet on whether it will be the version of the story from the leaked script or a modified one, but the first trailer for it has just been released and it’s everything you’d expect from a Tarantino film.
Well, in all honesty, it has a bit less blood that you’d expect, but the rest is all there. This is his second western after the critically acclaimed and commercially successful “Django Unchained,” and it will be his first movie to feature an original Ennio Morricone score.
Morricone actually came out of retirement to work with Tarantino on it, even though their first collaboration, for the aforementioned “Django,” was so troubled that both had at one point sworn they would never again work together.
“The Hateful Eight” stars Samuel L. Jackson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kurt Russell, Channing Tatum, Tim Roth, Bruce Dern, Michael Madsen and Demian Bichir.
