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  • Quentin Tarantino's "The Hateful Eight"

    Honestly doesn't sound that interesting to me, but I'm sure it will be awesome, especially with that cast.


    Quentin Tarantino told a standing-room-only crowd gathered for a staged reading of his latest film script, The Hateful Eight, that this was the one and only time they would see it with the current ending, in which all of the movie’s major characters die.

    Speaking to an eclectic crowd that included only a handful of prominent industry-ites (among them Harvey Weinstein and Tarantino’s WME agent, Mike Simpson), he said the movie was divided into five parts, or “chapters,” and that “I am working right now on a second draft. This is the first draft.”
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    He said Chapter 5 (which he titled "Black Night, White Hell") would be removed or rewritten altogether. That move may have been spurred by the script being leaked, and a subsequent lawsuit Tarantino has filed against Gawker for disseminating it online.

    The audience members assembled April 19 at the Theatre at the Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles -- many of whom had paid up to $200 apiece for tickets, with revenues benefiting Film Independent -- were rapturous as film critic Elvis Mitchell introduced Tarantino shortly after 8 pm, Pacific Time. Dressed in a red-trimmed black shirt and black cowboy hat, the writer-director in turn introduced nine cast members, among them two of his most beloved stars -- Samuel L. Jackson and Tim Roth -- along with Kurt Russell, Amber Tamblyn and Bruce Dern, among others.

    With Tarantino reading stage directions from a podium, the actors (who also included Walton Goggins, James Parks, Michael Madsen and James Remar) began to read the entire, three-hour-plus screenplay, a Western set somewhere between eight and 12 years after the Civil War, which begins with Russell as a bounty hunter chained to his prey, Tamblyn, inside a stage coach as they travel toward a destination where he will collect a $10,000 reward for her.

    The stagecoach is stopped by an African-American Civil War veteran (Jackson), who mysteriously appears with a saddle but no horse; they are then joined by another mystery man who claims to be going into town as its new sheriff, before all eventually take refuge from a blizzard in a “haberdashery” where almost all of the remaining story unfolds -- that is, four of the five chapters take place almost entirely within one room.
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    What follows is a combination of Western and Agatha Christie-style whodunnit, as various men and women engage in conversation and shootings in the haberdashery -- not least Dern, who plays a Civil War general whose son appears to have been killed by Jackson.

    In one of the many moments when the audience roared its approval, Jackson explains in exquisite and excruciating detail how he forced the general’s son to perform oral sex on him before killing him.

    Much of the later part of the story hinges on a coffee pot that has been filled with poison by one of the people in the room, and by Jackson’s attempt to discover who did it. Along the way, Tarantino uses flashbacks, and then more flashbacks, to reveal backstory -- along with scenes in equal parts comic and violent.

    The script is laced with both the “f” word and the “n” word, and Tarantino turned to the audience when the “n” word was used for the first time, joking that this was just the first of more than 200 such uses in the screenplay (a wild exaggeration, as it happened).

    More than once, he became slightly impatient with his cast, on one occasion reprimanding one who was slow to get on stage, and on another telling his actors: “Guys are starting to drift a little away from the dialog. Bring it back to the page. No co-writing.” The reading was as revealing of Tarantino the director as it was Tarantino the writer.

    The scene that drew the most laughter followed the poisoning, as one character after another retched gruesomely and bloodily onto the others before dying. But it is the shoot-out at the end and the deaths of all the characters that are likely to inspire the most talk, as this is the part Tarantino says he will change -- just how, he didn’t reveal.



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  • #2
    No preview link? Damn you Eric! Shit, I didn't find anything.

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    • #3
      They haven't started filming yet. lol

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      • #4
        Silly me, I misread the first line lol.

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        • #5
          There was a terrible span where Quentin Tarantino's proposed western The Hateful Eight looked like it'd be shelved forever, mostly out of spite. But thankfully, Tarantino has forgiven fans for their voracious nature, and The Hateful Eight is poised to ride after all! And production could start early 2015, so says one of its slated stars Kurt Russell.

          The former baseball player turned beloved actor who previously collaborated with Quentin Tarantino on Death Proof was talking about his involvement in the new to Netflix documentary The Battered Bastards of Baseball on the Fox affiliate out of Philadelphia. But First Showing tipped us to The Hateful Eight update Russell dropped amid talk of his dad, Portland Mavericks owner Bing Russell, and baseball.

          Speaking about what's next for the still hotly sought performer, Kurt Russell said:

          "There's a Tarantino project called The Hateful Eight that looks like it may go somewhere around the beginning of the year."

          He also mentioned Bone Tomahawk might start in October, suggesting that early reports that The Hateful Eight might shoot as soon as November may not be possible, depending on how much of the film demands Russell on set.

          It's been a mad year for The Hateful Eight. In January, the title of the Western that would play follow-up to Quentin Tarantino's two-time Academy Award-winning Western Django Unchained, was revealed. And production was being eyed for early summer. But days later, Tarantino did an about face, claiming he was shutting down the project completely because the script--which he gave to only six people--had been leaked.

          From there, fans gnashed their teeth as Tarantino's intention to shoot The Hateful Eight in 70mm made headlines. Then came his ill-fated attempt to sue Gawker over sharing a link to the leaked script. While Tarantino may have over-reacted, he eventually came to his senses. First, he--and a carefully selected cast that included Kurt Russell, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Dern, Michael Madsen, James Remar, Amber Tamblyn, Walt Goggins, and Zoe Bell-- performed the script for a Los Angeles audience. Then in May, Tarantino recommitted to making The Hateful Eight a movie, with a suggested start date of late 2014.

          The Hateful Eight is said to star those mentioned as its screenplay performance's readers, which means coordinating the schedules of Russell, Jackson, Dern, Madsen, Remar, Tamblyn, Goggins, and Bell. Little wonder then that this Western got pushed a bit to 2015. The good news is, that it's still coming.

          Tarantino has forgiven fans for their voracious nature, and The Hateful Eight is poised to ride after all! And production could start early 2015, so says one of its slated stars Kurt Russell.

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          • #6
            A special treat for my fellow cinephiles. I bootlegged this teaser trailer of Quentin Tarantino's Hateful Eight at the Sin City showing yesterday. Unless you go to the theater, you won't see this anywhere else. They haven't even started filming the movie yet. lol

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            • #7
              Fucking awesome
              DE OPPRESSO LIBER

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              • #8
                Looked like u were only in the theater lol

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by 01vnms4v View Post
                  Looked like u were only in the theater lol

                  It was a Friday morning showing. There were only about ten people in there.

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                  • #10
                    Cast announced with some neat newcomers to Tarantino's "group"

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                      • #12
                        I don't know how to search before making a new thread.
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                        • #13
                          Can't wait till Christmas! That's gonna be fuckin awesome.

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                          • #14
                            Not normally a Tarantino fan and I didn't think I'd like Django, but I did. I like Kurt Russell and with Django being good, I'll be following this one.
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                            • #15
                              Fuck you chevelle. All the god damn reposts on here and you want to edit me? Suck a dick.

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