Although writer/director Quentin Tarantino has halted further development of his Old West screenplay "The Hateful Eight", designed to be a 70-millimeter Western epic, certain story details from the script have now leaked online:
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"...the script is an ensemble Western, with the story broken into the chapters 'Last Stage to Red Rock', 'Son of A Gun', 'Minnie’s', 'The Four Pasengers' and 'Black Night, White Hell'. There are parts for Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, Samuel L. Jackson and Christoph Waltz. Jackson and Madsen would play bounty hunters returning 'human plunder' to a town called 'Red Rock' in exchange for hefty rewards.
"Their characters, a former major in the Union army and a man named 'John Ruth', dominate the first two of the script’s five chapters. They run into a Southerner named 'Chris Mannix' on the road, and three of them, along with their driver — a living prisoner and three dead bounties strapped to the roof — arrive at a haberdashery to take shelter from an oncoming blizzard.
"The proprietors, 'Minnie', 'Sweet Dave' and her other colleagues, are nowhere to be found. In their place are four men, a Southern general, an alleged hangman, a Frenchman named 'Bob' and a cowboy named 'Joe Gage'. Mistrust, coffee and violence ensue..."
"I had so much fun doing 'Django'", said Tarantino, before deciding to shelve the new project.
"..."and I love Westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it’s like 'OK! Let me make another one' now that I know what I’m doing."
Tarantino previously had a featured cameo in director Takashi Miike's 2007 Japanese feature "Sukiyaki Western Django".
