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While we’re used to having “extended”, “director’s”, “unrated”, or even “Rogue“, cuts released as an extra means of plugging a DVD and Blu-ray sale after the theatrical run, director Quentin Tarantino’s actually releasing two differing edits of his next film; The Hateful Eight; in cinemas.
It’s not entirely surprising when you consider the director has long been an advocate of using film stock over digital production, and is using his new western as a means of proving its superiority; having filmed the movie in 70mm, and going as far as to pay (or at least have distributors The Weinstein Company pay) to have capable projectors installed in a number of movie theatres in order to show his film in the best, and intended, format.
Tarantino’s 70mm print will be touring the US, via a roadshow that will see it presented on around 100 screens, and the director has confirmed it will in fact be a longer version than the digital release which will follow. “The roadshow version has an overture and an intermission, and it will be three hours, two minutes,” Tarantino tells the trade mag. “The multiplex version is about six minutes shorter, not counting the intermission time, which is about 12 minutes.”
“The 70 is the 70. You’ve paid the money. You’ve bought your ticket. So you’re there. I’ve got you. But I actually changed the cutting slightly for a couple of the multiplex scenes because it’s not that. Now it’s on Showtime Extreme. You’re watching it on TV and you just kind of want to watch a movie on your couch. Or you’re at Hot Dog on a Stick and you just want to catch a movie.”
No official sources have yet commented on the number of cinemas willing, or able, to screen The Hateful Eight‘s 70mm print, and screenings and availability will likely depend on the number of prints which make their way across the pond. Still, in London at least, The Prince Charles and select Picturehouse Cinemas have the capability, and will likely show the extended 70mm cut when available. For everyone else, the digital version of The Hateful Eight will arrive in UK cinemas on January 8th.
Matt Wheeldon – @TheMattWheeldon.
Source: Variety.
