It was a shocker when Quentin Tarantino’s leaked script for the “Hateful Eight” hit the web but even more of a shocker when the director decided to abandon the project. However, if current reports are accurate the script may have a second chance and we may get our Quentin Tarantino film after all.
Saturday, April 19, the director held a live reading of the “Hateful Eight” script in front of an overjoyed audience of Tarantino-fans. There he announced that he’s still working on the screenplay saying, "I am working right now on a second draft, this is the first draft.”
Surprisingly, Tarantino shared an unreleased fifth chapter of the screenplay with the audience titled “Black Night, White Hell.”
The live reading hosted a plethora of actors decked out in black and red cowboy gear including Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen and Bruce Dern.
The three-hour-long performance is summarized by The Hollywood Reporter. Check out what they had to say about Tarantino’s live reading of “Hateful Eight” below.
"[The Hateful Eight is a] Western set somewhere between eight and 12 years after the Civil War, which begins with Russell as a bounty hunter chained to his prey, [Amber] Tamblyn, inside a stagecoach as they travel toward a destination where he will collect a $10,000 reward for her.”
"The stagecoach is stopped by an African-American Civil War veteran (Jackson), who mysteriously appears with a saddle but no horse; they are then joined by another mystery man who claims to be going into town as its new sheriff, before all eventually take refuge from a blizzard in a 'haberdashery' where almost all of the remaining story unfolds -- that is, four of the five chapters take place almost entirely within one room."
While this is all good news, it doesn’t exactly guarantee that Tarantino is moving forward with the films production or just rewriting for a published version of “Hateful Eight.”
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