The Hateful Eight (2015) is an upcoming western genre action movie directed and written by two times Academy Award (Oscars) winner Quentin Tarantino. The movie features famous actors as Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Walton Goggins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, Zoë Bell, and Channing Tatum.
The story of The Hateful Eight (2015) is set in post-Civil War Wyoming. A group of bounty hunters try to find shelter during a blizzard but get involved in a plot of betrayal and deception. The ultimate question is “Will they survive”?
The movie is already creating a lot of hype around the world. Director Quentin Tarantino is known for his unique style of story telling. The movie has a huge star cast. Well, we can’t for the movie.. Can we? Movie is going to release in early 2016. Till then let’s see some interesting facts and details about The Hateful Eight (2015).
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12. The Hateful Eight (2015) is the 8th movie directed by Quentin Tarantino after Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Jackie Brown (1997), Kill Bill "Volume 1+2" (2003+2004), Death Proof (2007), Inglorious Basterds (2009), and Django Unchained (2012).
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11. The Hateful Eight (2015) is the first film since Khartoum (1966) to be shot in the Ultra Panavision 70 process (65mm film with 1.25x squeeze anamorphic lenses, for an aspect ratio of 2.76:1), which was made and released nearly 50 years before.
10. The Hateful Eight (2015) will take place around the same universe as Django Unchained (2012) even though it is not a direct sequel.
Christopher Waltz and Jamie Foxx in Django Unchained
9. The project of The Hateful Eight (2015) was shelved in early 2014 after the script was leaked but production was resumed in early 2015.
Director and Crew of The Hateful Eight
8. The events of this movie takes place during a record-breaking blizzard, several years after the American Civil War. It is highly possible that Quentin Tarantino is making a historical reference to the Great Blizzard of 1888; an actual blizzard that devastated the Northern region of the United States and killed hundreds of people, including soldiers, colonels and generals of the Civil War.
7. During the film's development stage, actor Christoph Waltz was rumored for the role of John 'The Hangman' Ruth in the film which would have been Waltz & Tarantino's third film collaboration together but the role eventually went to actor Kurt Russell.
Kurt Russell and Demian Bichir
6. According to the script of The Hateful Eight (2015), this film's plot heavily references many important historic realities that occurred in the years following the Civil War; including tension and rivalry between Union and Confederate veterans, the attitude over abolishing slavery and granting blacks equal rights, as well as economic struggles of the southern states and the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
5. This will be director Quentin Tarantino & actor Samuel L Jackson's 6th collaboration. Jackson made a cameo in Kill Bill Vol. 2 and was a Narrator in Inglourious Basterds.
Quentin Tarantino and Samuel L Jackson
4. During filming of The Hateful Eight (2015), the cast and crew were in a 30 degree refrigerated set.
3. Before filming began on The Hateful Eight (2015), all movie theaters worldwide had been retrofitted with digital film projectors, as traditional film stock were no longer in favor. As a great fan and supporter of film stock, Quentin Tarantino aggressively fought with global distributors for the film to be shown in its Ultra Panavision 70 presentation. In preparation for its release, Tarantino organized for 50 theatres worldwide to be retrofitted with anamorphic equipped 70mm projectors in order to display the film as he intended. The film will be released on December 25, 2015 as a roadshow presentation in 70mm format theaters only before being released in digital theaters on January 8, 2016.
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2. With three words ("The Hateful Eight") this is the longest title for a film directed by Quentin Tarantino. All the titles of his previous films only consisted of two words ( e.g. Reservoir Dogs(1992) , Pulp Fiction (1994) , Jackie Brown(1997) , Inglourious Basterds (2009) , "Kill Bill" )
1. In the leaked script's of The Hateful Eight (2015) ending, all the story's characters had died or were dying. Director Quentin Tarantino confirmed at Live Read that this ending would be changed in the new script.
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