A new poster for Quentin Tarantino‘s The Hateful Eight at this year’s Comic Con. It looks as if the lead up to the film’s December 25 release will be heavily focused on the fact it was filmed in 70mm Ultra Panavision as denoted in the bottom right corner of this new poster.
Additionally, Tarantino revealed (via Slashfilm) that Ennio Morricone will be providing an original score for the film. Tarantino has used plenty of Morricone music in the past, but all but one original track for Django Unchained came from Morricone’s past films. Here’s what Tarantino told the Comic Con audience:
I want to make one announcement that people don’t know yet. It wasn’t for sure, but we just settled it. You guys know that I don’t use an original score in my movies, I kinda take scores from other movies and put ’em in there. This one, I thought should have an original score. So I’m here to announce that the great Ennio Morricone will be doing the score for The Hateful Eight. He’s writing right now, and recording in Prague in the next couple of weeks.
A seven-minute preview of the film was also shown at Comic Con, I expect we’ll be having a trailer soon enough. Check out the poster below.
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…
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Dern, Michael Madsen, Kurt Russell, Walt Goggins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Demián Bichir, Channing Tatum, Tim Roth, James Parks and Zoe Bell
