“Someone’s not who he says he is.” I’d fathom a guess that no one is who they say they are in Quentin Tarantino’s latest foray into the West, The Hateful Eight. Motivated by a reward for a murderer (and possibly other factors), the eight hunkered down in a pass stop along the way to Red Rock, will look for any way to gain the upper-hand against the others, including shooting them in the back if the opportunity presents itself. While not highlighted in this first trailer, one can expect a healthy dose of long-winded monologues and diatribes, and a fair amount of stylized gun fighting to have a major role in the production. Check out the bravado (of which there is plenty of) now in the embedded trailer thanks to The Weinstein Company.
The Hateful Eight stars Kurt Russell, Samuel L. Jackson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tim Roth, Walton Goggins, Demian Bichir, Michael Madsen, Zoë Bell and Bruce Dern.
Official 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 . . .
The Hateful Eight holes up in US theaters on December 25, 2015 and UK theaters on January 8, 2016.
'Movie Trailer: The Hateful Eight (2015)' have 14 comments
August 12, 2015 @ 2:39 pm the hemingway
That’s a stretch-Sam Jackson is in a Tarantino flick.
August 15, 2015 @ 11:06 pm Electrician by Trade
What’s the over-under for the number of mfers he shouts?
August 16, 2015 @ 2:25 pm criticalmoviecritics
Seven sounds right. I’ll take the over.
August 12, 2015 @ 2:51 pm butch
Tarantino needs to limit his ‘trademarks’ and know when to end. Django suffered from everyone having speeches and running on and on.
August 12, 2015 @ 3:14 pm Lisa Portis
Seems like it was just yesterday the screenplay leaked online.
August 12, 2015 @ 3:48 pm skeptomaniac
Like M. Night, Quentin Tarantino is a victim of his own success.
August 12, 2015 @ 3:57 pm GotAnswers?
8 people stuck in a cabin talking Tarantino talk frightens me more than anything else in this world.
August 12, 2015 @ 4:41 pm hubz
h8ful 8 looks gr8 m8
August 12, 2015 @ 5:16 pm Elder-David
Another gift under thr tree for Christmas day opening.
August 12, 2015 @ 6:05 pm Nickama
I’d like to see Tarantino get back to movies like Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. I’m not the biggest fan of his recent tangents into the westernmartialartswar niches.
August 12, 2015 @ 6:13 pm StoryTeller
Impressive cast but I’m thinking QT is shooting a blank with this one.
August 12, 2015 @ 6:42 pm Ginger Spice
I might watch this just for Kurt Russel’s glorious mustache.
August 12, 2015 @ 8:05 pm SmithKleinArt
Looks a helluva lot better than that Django crap he did a few years back.
August 12, 2015 @ 11:00 pm M4XW3LL
I’m certain it will have its good moments–all his movies do. His problem is he’s lost his ability to restrain himself and this will most certainly suffer because of that.