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It was an on-again-off-again project which thankfully put its wheels in motion (after a script-leak led to a temporary cancellation), and you can now see the first official Hateful Eight teaser trailer below.
Coming from director Quentin Tarantino (who’s last western, Django Unchained, proved to be especially fun), The Hateful Eight is set several years after the American Civil War, and will find eight westerners (apparently the more politically correct term for ‘cowboys’ now) holed-up in a stagecoach stopover as a blizzard renders them unable to travel.
Things will go awry (as they always do) as bounty hunter The Hangman (Kurt Russell, Deathproof) is transporting his latest prisoner (Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hitcher) to be executed and believes at least one of the men in the stopover will aim to stop him from collecting that bounty.
Starring Tarantino regulars Samuel L. Jackson, Christoph Waltz, Tim Roth, and Michael Madsen, as well as Walton Goggins (who did have a role in Django), Bruce Dern (Django), and Demián Bichir (Machete Kills), The Hateful Eight will have music composed by Ennio Morricone (famed for his work with Sergio Leone), and will be released in 70mm format (with Tarantino being a huge proponent of film over digital) on Christmas Day in the US, before earning a wider release on January 8th – the same day as the official US release.
