Yesterday brought a new The Hateful Eight and today we get another tease at the film, this time featuring Demian Bichir as Bob “The Mexican” in another new character poster, which you can see at the bottom of the post.
Like Brad, I can only assume these posters are a sign of something more to come, hopefully in the form of a trailer either by the end of the week or the start of next. We’ve now seen three of the titular eight, as Kurt Russell and Jennifer Jason Leigh were featured in yesterday’s poster and Bichir in today’s. That leaves five more stagecoach passengers for The Weinstein Co. to reveal — played by Samuel L. Jackson, Walton Goggins, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen and Bruce Dern — and as one reader pointed out yesterday it wouldn’t be a surprise in the least to see character posters released throughout the week, ultimately leading up to a trailer thereafter.
Of course that is all just speculation, but the timing makes sense and these posters do serve to build up anticipation for something bigger. When exactly we will see a trailer we don’t know for sure, but once it drops it is going to be difficult to hold off watching it no matter how hard I try, as The Hateful Eight is easily among my most anticipated films of the year. Even though Tarantino’s last movie is one I’ve grown to like less and less since I first saw it, there is no denying it is a unique and quality piece of filmmaking, and the premise and cast for The Hateful Eight leave me anxious to see the final product.
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…
