Well, that didn’t take long, it has now officially been confirmed Channing Tatum will star in Quentin Tarantino‘s The Hateful Eight, though the character he’ll be playing has still yet to be revealed, though Screen Daily disputes the original report saying it’s a “major” role, though just because the role may be small I guess that doesn’t mean it still can’t be important.
In addition Tatum, we also now know Demián Bichir (A Better Life, Savages) has joined the cast which also includes confirmed actors Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Dern, Michael Madsen, Kurt Russell, Walt Goggins, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Tim Roth.
And now here’s the official plot synopsis
In The Hateful Eight, set six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Russell) and his fugitive Daisy Domergue (Leigh), race towards the town of Red Rock where Ruth, known in these parts as “The Hangman,” will bring Domergue to justice. Along the road, they encounter two strangers: Major Marquis Warren (Jackson), a black former union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix (Goggins), a southern renegade who claims to be the town’s new Sheriff. Losing their lead on the blizzard, Ruth, Domergue, Warren and Mannix seek refuge at Minnie’s Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie’s, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. Bob (Bichir), who’s taking care of Minnie’s while she’s visiting her mother, is holed up with Oswaldo Mobray (Roth), the hangman of Red Rock, cow-puncher Joe Gage (Madsen), and Confederate General Sanford Smithers (Dern). As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our eight travelers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock after all…
Rehearsals for the film are underway and production is set to begin at the end of the year with the film reportedly set to be ready for a Toronto Film Festival premiere next year.
