Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2015: #4. Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight

The Hateful Eight

Director: Quentin Tarantino // Writer: Quentin Tarantino

The film that almost wasn’t due to a draft of the script being leaked in early 2014, causing Tarantino to shelve the project. But after a live script reading at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles in spring 2014, extreme interest seemed to reenergize The Hateful Eight, another ‘southern’ from Tarantino following 2012’s Django Unchained. While the role rumored for Christoph Waltz eventually went to Kurt Russell (who starred in Death Proof, of course), Tarantino recycles his usual crew, including Samuel Jackson, Zoe Bell, Michael Madsen, while adding some high profile names like Channing Tatum, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Demian Bichir in a film set in post-Civil War Wyoming, where bounty hunters try to find shelter during a blizzard but get involved in a plot of betrayal and deception. Tarantino has already announced he wants to go out while he’s still ‘fresh,’ so we expect this to be one of a last handful (or less) of titles from the idiosyncratic auteur.

Cast: Channing Tatum, Samuel L. Jackson, Walton Goggins, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tim Roth, Zoe Bell, Bruce Dern, Michael Madsen, Demian Bichir

Producers: Richard N. Gladstein (Killshot), Shannon McIntosh (Tusk), Stacey Sher (Django Unchained)

U.S. Distributor: The Weinstein Company

Release Date: The film is set for limited theatrical release on November 13, 2015.

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