Well, that didn’t take long. After scrapping plans to film The Hateful Eight once the script leaked online and Quentin Tarantino threatened Gawker.com with a lawsuit, the suit has now been dropped, Tarantino held a live read (see video below) of the script and just recently told press at the Cannes Film Festival (see video below) he was working on a second draft and would write a third before deciding whether he would make the movie, publish the screenplay, take the film to Broadway or all three. Now, according to Showbiz 411, it sounds like the movie is at least back on track as the site reports Tarantino plans on beginning production this November.
The report says the shoot will take place in Wyoming with Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Dern, Michael Madsen starring along with all the actors who recently participated in the live reading of the script including Kurt Russell, James Remar, Amber Tamblyn, Walt Goggins and Zoe Bell.
Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained, Inglourious Basterds) was originally sought to return, but he won’t make it three in a row with Tarantino apparently.
As for the plot, it’s an ensemble Western centered on bounty hunters returning human plunder to a town called Red Rock in exchange for hefty rewards who run into a Southerner on the road. The three of them, along with their driver arrive at a haberdashery to take shelter from an oncoming blizzard. The proprieters are nowhere to be found, only four men in their ‘stead. From there the story plays out in one location.
Of course, Tarantino sounds as if he learned a lot from the live read and has already confirmed he’s rewriting the script. There’s no word yet on what he’s rewriting, but for anyone that has a copy of that original script you should know soon enough.
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