What a glorious day when Hollywood has started to embrace the Western genre once more. As our Devin Pike once said, it’s amazing we’re even getting to see this movie. Initially, Quentin Tarantino’s script for THE HATEFUL EIGHT showed up outside the live-reading sessions on a Gawker site, and QT almost went medieval on their arses. Instead, he retooled the script, forgave whomever actually leaked it, and made a snowy throwback to the gorgeous Westerns film lovers only dared to hope to see again. We’ve shown you a few trailers already, so let’s look at an awesome new featurette that explains the roadshow aspect and 70mm process used for the film, lovingly narrated by Samuel L. Jackson. Sadly, my hometown of Dallas isn’t one of the cities getting the movie in 70mm, but Austin is. The film stars Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, Demian Bichir, and Channing Tatum. Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
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…