For the second consecutive film, Quentin Tarantino is heading out west, bringing his brand of filmmaking to the Western. The Hateful Eight isn’t set to open until December, but the film is featured on this week’s Entertainment Weekly cover.
It’s the first official look at members of the cast in the film. The cover shows Samuel L. Jackson, a beat-up Jennifer Jason Leigh and an epic mustache attached to the face of Kurt Russell.
While Hateful Eight is another Western, it dials back the epic scope of Django Unchained and Inglourious Basterds. It doesn’t mean that it’s less violent - Tarantino showed off how violent he can be in a small space in Reservoir Dogs - but it is more like a play than his previous movies. It centers on a group of eight gunslingers who are trapped in a cabin because of a snowstorm.
“For me it has more of a Western Iceman Cometh kind of vibe about it,” Tarantino told EW. “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.”
Hateful Eight also brings in some new faces to the Tarantino fold, including Leigh, Channing Tatum and Demian Bichir. While Bruce Dern had a small part in Django, he has his first big Tarantino role in this film.
Tim Roth, Michael Madsen and Walton Goggins also star.
Production on the film started in January. An animated teaser was released in April.
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cover from Entertainment Weekly