First Look At Tarantino's The Hateful Eight

First Look At Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight

Thanks to the cover of Entertainment Weekly, we have our first look at Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming film The Hateful Eight. It features Samuel L. Jackson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Kurt Russell rocking a badass ‘stash. Tarantino talked to the magazine about the upcoming western and how it has been scaled down from his last two movies. This Hateful Eight is going to be a little more intimate, but all of the violence we expect from the filmmaker will be there.

“For me it has more of a western ‘Iceman Cometh’ kind of vibe about it. A bunch of guys in a room who can’t trust each other. That wasn’t a marching order when I sat down to write the script, but pretty quickly I realized this is kind of a nice coming-full-circle.”

Sounds like a western-style Reservoir Dogs, awesome! The cast for the film also includes Walton Goggins, Demian Bichir, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, and Channing Tatum, who has taken a minor role. Here’s the story breakdown:

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…

The Weinstein Company will distribute the film, and it’s expected to be released sometime this winter.