The Hateful Eight was very nearly cancelled due to a script leak, and Jimmy Kimmel grilled the cast last night to find out who was responsible.
Kimmel first discussed the leak with Tarantino himself. The director explained he was so upset because the script leaked when it was in such an early stage. He planned to write three completely different versions of the movie, and the first one is the one that the public suddenly had access to.
"I reacted really badly to it...to have it exposed in that first version like that really got to me," Tarantino explained.
Back when the script got out there, Tarantino said that only handful of people could have leaked it. He had six suspects, including Bruce Dern, Tim Roth, and Michael Madsen.
Naturally, since Kimmel had all three of those actors on his show last night, he opened his interview by asking, "Which one of you leaked the script?"
Of course nobody came clean, but Madsen went into a story about how his own son called him when the news came out asking, "Why did you betray Quentin?" Tarantino even said at the time that he knew it was one of those actors but it couldn't have been Roth, and so Madsen asked the director to make a public announcement that he didn't do it. No such announcement ever happened.
When accused of being behind the leak, Roth jokingly said, "Oh yeah. Yeah, it was me. 100 percent." Given Roth's role in Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, if it was him, that would be incredibly fitting.