We haven’t yet seen a trailer for Quentin Tarantino‘s The Hateful Eight, but we’ve seen plenty of pictures, a text-filled teaser as well as a poster (and now a second one) so it only stands to assume today’s reveal of a new poster is a sign the first trailer is on the way… or at least I’m choosing to interpret this new poster in such a way.
Of course, I’m someone that would prefer not to see a single trailer before it arrives on Christmas Day, but I just know I won’t be able to help but sneak a peek once it does premiere. I’ll be in line for a new Tarantino movie no matter what it is and even though I sort of wish he’d done something other than a Western, I really can’t argue when it’s his words and the cast he’s able to drum up for his features. Just look at these names: 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… Need I say more?
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…
