The first full trailer for Quentin Tarantino's 'The Hateful Eight' was released months after suing Gawker for the online leak of an early draft of the movie's script.
The writer/director's eighth film, the first since 2012's Django Unchained, is a post Civil War western with action, violence and black comedy. It came very close to never happening but 'The Hateful Eight' is now just a few months away from opening. The Weinstein Company on Wednesday made the first trailer for 'The Hateful Eight' available online, showcasing the first footage from Tarantino's completed project.
Set six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, Tarantino regular Samuel L Jackson kicks the trailer off as Major Marquis Warren, a union soldier-turned-bounty hunter. "Got room for one more?" He hitches a ride on a stagecoach with fellow bounty hunter John Ruth played by Kurt Russell and his fugitive Jennifer Jason Leigh's Daisy Domergue. They soon find themselves in the middle of a blizzard, before they take shelter in a tiny shack alongside a group of grizzled, gun-toting outlaws. "Move a little strange, you're gonna get a bullet. Not a warning, not a question. A bullet."
'The Hateful Eight' finds Tarantino making yet homage to the spaghetti western genre, following 'Inglourious Basterds' and 'Django Unchained,' both of which were among his best-received films of his caree - the former of which nabbed one Oscar, while the latter won two. The film will feature an original score by Ennio Morricone. The man is best known for his iconic Spaghetti western themes for Sergio Leone's iconic so-called spaghetti westerns that redefined a genre and turned Clint Eastwood into a star in the mid-1960′s.
Demian Bichir, Tim Roth and Michael Madsen all make appearances in the promo, but there is no sign of Channing Tatum, who is also rumored to star. The film will first premiere on "glorious 70mm" theaters on Christmas Day before going a wide release on 18 January 2016.
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