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Final casting has been announced for the latest Quentin Tarantino film, a Western called The Hateful Eight. It's set about 10 years after the Civil War and the plot centers around eight travelers who find themselves stranded by a storm in an isolated stagecoach stop. The cast is a great one by Tarantino standards: Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Channing Tatum, Damien Bichir, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Walton Goggins. People either like Tarantino's work or hate it, but for those who like it, he's got a bunch of actors who know how to have a lot of fun with his dialogue. The film is scheduled for a Christmas 2015 release.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononho ... s-20141106

I did a quick Google search and found the screenplay. I've always been able to find Tarantino's screenplays online before his films ever go into production (Kill Bill, Inglorious Basterds, Django Unchained)...

danielh41 wrote:I did a quick Google search and found the screenplay. I've always been able to find Tarantino's screenplays online before his films ever go into production (Kill Bill, Inglorious Basterds, Django Unchained)...

Supposedly, the leaked version of the screenplay was widely circulated around the beginning of the year and Tarantino claims he's rewritten the script since then and intends to keep a tighter control over it this time around. That's one of the reasons that production was delayed. The most obvious change is the ending.

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Extreme- ... 68066.html

I have to wonder why they'd be in a stagecoach as the Transcontinental Railroad had been completed by the time of the setting and there wasn't much of anything in Wyoming not next to the railroad.

Bob Juch wrote:I have to wonder why they'd be in a stagecoach as the Transcontinental Railroad had been completed by the time of the setting and there wasn't much of anything in Wyoming not next to the railroad.

Well, for one reason, it's tougher for a train to get snowed in with only eight people around.

From what I read, the movie begins on the stagecoach with only two of the characters and the others gradually get introduced, with some of them waiting at the depot. As you probably know, Tarantino movies are long, very long, on dialogue and he probably wanted ample time for scenes to play out with the exact number of characters he wanted.

silverscreenselect wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:I have to wonder why they'd be in a stagecoach as the Transcontinental Railroad had been completed by the time of the setting and there wasn't much of anything in Wyoming not next to the railroad.

Well, for one reason, it's tougher for a train to get snowed in with only eight people around.

From what I read, the movie begins on the stagecoach with only two of the characters and the others gradually get introduced, with some of them waiting at the depot. As you probably know, Tarantino movies are long, very long, on dialogue and he probably wanted ample time for scenes to play out with the exact number of characters he wanted.

I'm sure he had his reasons. As historical inaccuracies in film go this is just a pimple.

silverscreenselect wrote:

danielh41 wrote:I did a quick Google search and found the screenplay. I've always been able to find Tarantino's screenplays online before his films ever go into production (Kill Bill, Inglorious Basterds, Django Unchained)...

Supposedly, the leaked version of the screenplay was widely circulated around the beginning of the year and Tarantino claims he's rewritten the script since then and intends to keep a tighter control over it this time around. That's one of the reasons that production was delayed. The most obvious change is the ending.

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Extreme- ... 68066.html

When I head the story about the leaked screenplay, I wondered why Tarantino was making a big deal out of it this time. I read Kill Bill, Inglorious Basterds, and Django Unchained long before those movies went into production, and the finished product was pretty close to the screenplay drafts I had read. I always figured that Tarantino was so in love with his own writing that he was leaking his screenplays himself.