The Hateful Eight Teaser Trailer is Vintage Tarantino
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It's so rare for a Hollywood director to make constant hits with little to no misses. We're nearing eight films into Quentin Tarantino's career, and the director just continues to find success with every film he's made.
Amidst controversy over script leaks, Tarantino wavered over creating the film. After all, he's an auteur that likes to control all aspects of his art, and the leaks were enough to derail his plans. However, following a live table read, the director decided to go through with the film's production. Excitement is high for this one, especially considered the all-star cast. Watch the teaser trailer now!
The Hateful Eight will be released exclusively in theaters equipped with 70mm projectors on Christmas, followed by a wide release on January 8, 2016.
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 Hateful Eight to Open in 70mm, Scheduled for Fall 2015 Release
Quentin Tarantino's next film, The Hateful Eight, has already had so much controversy surrounding it despite production not even beginning. There was the full script leak that happened early in the year, Tarantino's subsequent lawsuit with Gawker over the leak, the live table read of the script with some Tarantino staples, rumors of the production re-entering shooting after cancellation, and the film's official teaser trailer exclusively to Sin City: A Dame to Kill For theatrical screenings. Finally, we have some concrete information for the film that'll not only appease Tarantino fans, but cinephiles as a whole.
Production on The Hateful Eight is confirmed to begin in early 2015 with a targeted fall 2015 release date. What's more, the film will be shot in 70mm and will initially be released into theaters in the format before spreading out to more theaters in 35mm and DCP formats. For those unfamiliar, 70mm film offers a higher range of quality than the typical 35mm film stock does. I wrote a bit about Interstellar last year and how it could be the last major 70mm film release, but The Hateful Eight could hold that distinction.
Whatever format the film is released in, I know film audiences of all kinds will be glad to re-enter Tarantino's blissfully grandiose cinematic world once again.
[via /Film]
[Video] Supercut of Every Death in Quentin Tarantino's Films
I'm a huge Quentin Tarantino film, both for his stylistic approach to filmmaking, but for how entertaining and rewarding every one of his carefully-crafted films have been. Many people lament his style for its ultra-violence, but really, he should be known more for his talking head pieces and narratives than the amount of blood shed throughout his cinematic career.
Nevertheless, it's not really a Tarantino film if it lacked a surplus of entertaining blood spills. One fan has put together a supercut of every single on-screen death found in Tarantino's filmography from his debut with Reservoir Dogs to 2012's Django Unchained in a four-minute video. Surprisingly, there aren't as many deaths as you may imagine, as the bulk of them come from Kill Bill, vol. 1 and Kill Bill, vol. 2. Watch and re-live every single death below.
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Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight Rumored to Shoot in November
Last November, Quentin Tarantino announced his plans to revisit the Western genre for his next film, The Hateful Eight. However, the plans for the film were immediately scrapped this past January following the leak of The Hateful Eight's first draft. Tarantino even went as far as suing Gawker for their role in spreading the leaked script to their readers. Since then, the director gathered the proposed cast for the film for a live read of the leaked first draft of the script last month in LA. The live read was intended to gauge audience reaction to the script, as well as to reinvigorate interest in the project itself.
If rumors are true, that's exactly what happened, as it's being reported that Tarantino and part of the live read cast are set to meet in Wyoming to begin production on The Hateful Eight in November. The cast includes Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction), Bruce Dern (Django Unchained), Kurt Russell (Death Proof), Zoe Bell (Kill Bill), Michael Madsen (Reservoir Dogs), Amber Tamblyn (Django Unchained), amongst others.
The Hateful Eight is set just after the Civil War and takes place in only two locations: a stagecoach and a warehouse in Wyoming. It's in these locations that all of the characters partake in very tense conversations that boil over into violence. While the film will have an altered third act and minor changes to characters and plot details following the aforementioned live read. In essence, the rumored synopsis sounds similar to Tarantino's debut film, Reservoir Dogs, and we all know how well that film was received.
We'll report on any updates to The Hateful Eight when more information arises.
[via /Film]
Quentin Tarantino suing Gawker over latest film script leak
Last November, director Quentin Tarantino revealed his plans to direct a Western as his next film with Jay Leno. A planned Western, The Hateful Eight was met with excitement over Tarantino's prospects in returning to the setting following the successful Django Unchained. However, the plans were scrapped last week when the first draft of the script was leaked online through one of three actors he personally gave a copy of the script to, naming Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, and Bruce Dern. Whether directly or indirectly, Tarantino believes either Dern or Madsen allowed an agent to take the script, who then spread it out. Tarantino has since decided to publish the screenplay in book form, so we'll be able to at least read along to a presumably great story.
A week after the announcement and leak, Tarantino has decided to sue Gawker Media for publishing the script online. The director had the following to say about the outlet in his formal complaint request:
Gawker Media has made a business of predatory journalism, violating people’s right to make a buck. This time they’ve gone too far. Rather than merely publishing a news story reporting that Plaintiff’s screenplay may have been circulating in Hollywood without his permission, Gawker Media crossed the journalistic line by promoting itself to the public as the first source to read the entire screenplay illegally. Their headline boasts, ‘Here is the leaked Quentin Tarantino Hateful Eight Script’ — here, not someplace else, but ‘here’ on the Gawker website. The article then contains multiple direct links for downloading the entire screenplay through a conveniently anonymous URL by simply clicking button-links on the Gawker page, and brazenly encourages Gawker visitors to read the screenplay illegally with an invitation to ‘enjoy’ it. There was nothing newsworthy or journalistic about Gawker Media facilitating and encouraging the public’s violation of Plaintiff’s copyright in the screenplay, and its conduct will not shield Gawker Media from liability for their unlawful activity.
I can't blame Tarantino for being so peeved about The Hateful Eight's leak. Gawker knows better than to make the script so readily available, so it's not much of a shock that Tarantino decided to take action. However the case ends, we can find solace in the fact that Tarantino has many other script ideas he wants to film, so the production for his next film shouldn't be delayed too long.
[via Collider]
[Video] Quentin Tarantino's next film will be another Western
Last year's Django Unchained was one of Quentin Tarantino's most financially successful films in his illustrious career, grossing more than $425 million worldwide. However you may feel about it (I personally felt mixed about it), Django was one of Tarantino's favorites. On The Tonight Show, he announced his plans for his next film to be in the Western genre. The director elaborates:
I haven’t told anyone this publicly, but I will say the genre: It’s a western. I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it’s like ‘OK! Let me make another one now that I know what I’m doing,’
There are no plot details yet, but Tarantino has said the film will not be a sequel to Django Unchained, which is more than alright with me. However, this means that his previous plans to revisit the World War II setting. Watch the full interview with Jay Leno below!
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[via Collider]