“It’s good, really good,” Harvey Weinstein said last month at the Tribeca Film Festival about Quentin Tarantino‘s "The Hateful Eight" (via Forbes). The producer/studio honcho has already seen forty minutes of the flick and as usual, he’s pitching something great, saying, “It’s special and fun and sharp and new and edgy.” And while we’ll have to wait until Christmas to see the whole thing, the first look at the movie is here.
Set after the Civil War, the story follows a rogues gallery of characters who get snowbound in a frontier way station, with explosive results. And as one would expect, Tarantino’s movie will likely be nodding to some his own favorite flicks, and he names one that should get fans firing up their DVD players in advance of the film. “For me it has more of a Western ‘Iceman Cometh‘ kind of vibe about it,” he told EW, referencing John Frankenheimer‘s 1973 movie. “A bunch of guys in a room who can’t trust each other. That wasn’t a marching order when I sat down to write the script, but pretty quickly I realized this is kind of a nice coming-full-circle,” he added, nodding to his breakout movie "Reservoir Dogs."
For the past few years at Cannes, Harvey Weinstein has invited press to show off his upcoming slate of movies, and something tells us he’ll do it again this year. And undoubtedly, "The Hateful Eight" will be part of that package. The movie arrives on Christmas Day.
QT will never be considered a great director unless he includes a homosexual themed movie in his lineup or includes homosexuals in his stories. Hopefully some of these companies will force him to do it soon.
Tarantino was obviously referencing the Eugene O\’Neill PLAY, not the Frankenheimer adaptation of it (you do realize the play is quite a bit more of a cultural landmark than the film, I hope?). Tarantino has been heavily influenced by theatre in general (especially Mamet and Chayefsky), not just film.
With another great cast and a great director – only rich Tarintino storytelling can be expected. Looking forward to the film.
Kurt Russell looks exactly the same in this as Bone Tomahawk. Of course they are both westerns but I\’m afraid people are gonna get them confused.
Hated his last one. What a terrible mess of a movie that was.
Weinstein said it´s good ? No Kidding ?
@YER you call Django boring?? You don\’t sound like a real Tarintino fan.
Tarintino still supplants genre and expectation better than any director working in big budget film today. He creates cinematic hymns that wash the audience in the blood of their own unrighteousness–and it\’s always a hell of a lot of fun.
Go F- Yourself @YER
Unless he really did change the script (which imo was a bluff by him) the entire film is a 2 hour long mexican standoff. Tarantino has gotten insanely boring over these recent years.
The movie doesn\’t come out on Christmas. FYI it\’s scheduled for November 13.