At long last, the cast of Quentin Tarantino’s next movie The Hateful Eight has been revealed.
When Tarantino revealed The Hateful Eight as his next project, it was very exciting news. Then the script was leaked and Tarantino said he wasn’t going to make the film. Later Tarantino cooled off and continued to work on the script, staged a live read of a draft, and continued to refine the script. Eventually he confirmed that it would be his next film.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Tarantino has finalized the cast. Some of the cast members were present at the live read, and some of them are additions.
The cast officially includes Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Samuel L. Jackson, Walton Goggins, Tim Roth, Bruce Dern, Michael Madsen, and Demian Bichir. Channing Tatum has also signed on for a small, but pivotal role in the film.
Here’s the official synopsis:
“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 is aiming The Hateful Eight for a fall 2015 release date.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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