Last week, Quentin Tarantino officially started production on "The Hateful Eight." It was the dramatic conclusion to a year that saw him initially cancel the movie entirely after the script leaked, only to rebound, giving a live read of his new work-in-progress screenplay (read our review), and then returning to the project full force, with a planned release of the finished film — shot in 70mm — later this year. But what has changed in the post-Civil War set movie that tracks a group of rogues who meet and clash in haberdashery in the Old West? Well, Harvey Weinstein has a little tease.
"I’m pretty close to him, but I had to go to the house and read the last chapter and it has changed. Right now, there’s one guy who knows the ending. The one I read, he made adjustments that will shock, surprise and delight. Me, the whole cast, we’re all guessing. There’s only one guy who knows what will happen," Weinstein told Deadline.
In case you forgot and didn’t know, the leaked versions of "The Hateful Eight" revealed the story was divided into six chapters, in what was essentially a two-act film. In our assessment of that old screenplay from a year ago, we noted "the somewhat anti-climactic nature of the finale" and figured Tarantino "would still finesse things a bit." And it looks like he has.
So saddle up, and if you’ve read that old script, let us know your speculation about Tarantino’s new ending below.
And now Hateful eight is coming. Watch Quentin make a third western. You tell hes tryna make a western trilogy.
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"It was an afterthought."
Not exactly. Continuing after the shootout WAS in DU\’s original script. But the original ending, before Quentin rewrote it, has Django blowing up the mansion BEFORE he guns down the remaining villains. He walks out of the smoke and gives them the what-for.
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this is the first QT film that actually feels like a play. sparse on action, heavy on the dialogue. i wonder if he changed stuff around to make it more cinematic – flashbacks, etc. the beginning also drags a bit – the first act. hope he fiddles with that some, too.
It was an afterthought. QT rewrote the ending on set.
I think the problem with DU\’s ending is that there were two of them. The shoot-out felt final, then there was the escape and then another shoot-out which felt like an afterthought.
*spoilers here* how the hell is an all out shoot-out where everyone perishes is an anti-climactic ending? everything in the screenplay builds up to that moment. the big reveal is the true climax of the film, but the shoot-out is in no way anti-climactic. wtf???
Hopefully it didnt suck like the ending from Django Unchained. Which in my opinion was horrible. Imagine it would have been a Sergio Leone ending with Fox, Waltz and DiCaprio in an Mexican Standoff in the fields of Candyland. The would have been a classic. But all we got was a bloodbath…