Director Quentin Tarantino's new movie finally gets a name! The film is called "The Hateful Eight". While casting has yet to be done, reports say that Oscar winner and star of the Tarantino flicks, "Django Unchained" and "Inglourious Basterds", Christoph Waltz is attached to the project.
For his first movie since Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino is going back to the Western genre with a movie called "The Hateful Eight" which he hopes to direct this summer, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
No one has been cast but Tarantino has reached out to casting director Victoria Thomas, who worked on "Django Unchained", to work with him on casting the movie. A part has been written for Christoph Waltz, who starred in Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" and "Inglourious Basterds".
Pilar Savone, a producer on "Django Unchained" and an associate producer on "Inglourious Basterds" is producing "The Hateful Eight".
It's not clear who is financing and who will distribute the film although the Weinstein Co. is the most likely candidate to be involved in both capacities, due to its long-standing relationship with the filmmaker.
According to The Wrap, Quentin Tarantino revealed last November that he was working on a new script and that it would be a Western. But he didn't reveal a title or suggest a timetable for making it. Tarantino has mentioned projects he was working on but ended up shelving them. "Inglourious Basterds" famously took a decade to hit the big screen as he worked and reworked the script.
"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,'" QuentinTarantino told Jay Leno in November when he appeared on The Tonight Show.
Tarantino has long loved the Western genre and in the post-Pulp Fiction era in the mid-to-late 1990s tried to adapt Elmore Leonard's 40 Lashes Less One, about two prisoners, an Apache and a black soldier, who must hunt down five outlaws to earn their freedom.
