Quentin Tarantino was at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday with his The Hateful Eight cast to promote the new movie, which will hit theaters on Christmas Day. The director that he managed to hire Ennio Morricone for his second consecutive Western and also had a few things to say about digital projection.
Tarantino has featured pieces from Morricone scores in the past, but they had just been samples from the legendary composer’s previous work. Morricone did contribute one new piece to Django Unchained, but he will compose an entirely new score for Hateful Eight.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, this makes Hateful Eight Tarantino’s first film with a complete score without relying on previously-written music. It will also be the first Western score for Morricone, who is best known for the scores for The Good, The Bad And The Ugly and Once Upon A Time In The West, in 40 years.
Last month, The Weinstein Company confirmed that Hateful Eight will get a limited 70-millimeter release on christmas Day, before going wide on Jan. 8. It was no surprise that Tarantino took time to rally against digital projection.
“That’s not the movie industry I signed up for,” Tarantino said, notes Variety. ““I am not a fan of digital projection…we’ve already ceded too much ground to the barbarians.”
Tarantino called digital filmmaking “HBO in public,” so he might as well move to television if he can’t make a movie with film.
The SDCC panel also included an eight-minute reel Tarantino put together just for the convention. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kurt Russell, Tim Roth and Bruce Dern also made it to the panel, which was moderated by Chris Hardwick.
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