At one point in time, it looked like the next, highly anticipated Quentin Tarantino movie was not going to happen at all. Following The Hateful Eight script leak, the director had announced that he would not be pushing through with the movie. Fans of the talented director were sorely disappointed, as a Western film such as The Hateful Eight would have shown Tarantino in top form. After all the director loved Westerns, and was very good at it -- take the Oscar nominated Django Unchained, which was a big box office hit as well.
Eight months ago, Quentin Tarantino clearly stated that the movie was going down the drain, because of the unfortunate The Hateful Eight script leak. He told Deadline, "I'm very, very depressed. I finished a script, a first draft, and I didn't mean to shoot it until next winter, a year from now. I gave it to six people, and apparently, it's gotten out today."
It turns out that Tarantino gave a copy of The Hateful Eight script to three actors -- Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, and Tim Roth, and one of these actors was the sources of the leak. Says Tarantino, "The one I know didn't do this is Tim Roth. One of the others let their agent read it, and that agent has now passed it on to everyone in Hollywood." The website Gawker has released the script online.
But the good news is that after that whole mess with The Hateful Eight script leak, the movie has been greenlighted and is actually now on a very quick journey towards hitting the big screen. In fact in April, Tarantino held a live reading of the current draft of the script. Actors such as Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Tim Roth, Amber Tamblyn, Walton Goggins, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, James Parks, Denis Menochet, and other all participated in the live read.
From the live read of The Hateful Eight script, we know some of the characters and plotlines. A blizzard throws a couple of hodgepodge characters together, a bounty hunter, a hangman, a prisoner, a sheriff, a Mexican guy, a "little man," a cow puncher, and a confederate.
Of course, that was a first draft and the director could have very well gone ahead and changed the entire thing. In any case, one things fans can rejoice at, is that the fact that The Hateful Eight is on its way to the big screen!
