UPDATE: Channing Tatum is now confirmed for a role along with Demian Bichir. Click here for the full, updated report and official plot synopsis.
Quentin Tarantino was on with Craig Ferguson at the end of last week (watch here) and told the late night host the first read through for his new movie The Hateful Eight would actually take place at the beginning of this week. I heard that and assumed we might be getting some final casting information on the film shortly and it seems that just might be the case.
Deadline reports Channing Tatum is circling a “major role” in the film, though the role, obviously, is unknown. The site lists the confirmed cast as Samuel L. Jackson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, Kurt Russell and Tim Roth, but the casting around this one has been so confused from the start, following that Los Angeles live reading, that it’s hard to know just who is and isn’t in this film. Are James Remar, Walt Goggins and Zoe Bell in this film or not?
And speaking of the live reading, Tarantino has since rewritten the script and as the film heads to the American Film Market for foreign sales, The Weinstein Co. is requiring people to drive to their offices, approximately 20 minutes away from the market, if they wish to read the script under supervision. It seems they’re not interested in another leak.
The Hateful Eight is expected to be ready for the Toronto Film Festival next year with production beginning in December-January, depending on who you read.
The ensemble Western centers 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.
