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Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight Cast Announced<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

November 6, 2014<\/p>\n

\"Sidney<\/a><\/p>\n

The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced today that an incredible list of top acting talent has come on board to star in Academy Award winning writer\/director Quentin Tarantino\u2019s upcoming post-Civil War western, THE HATEFUL EIGHT<\/strong>. The Hateful Eight are: Academy Award nominee Samuel L. Jackson (DJANGO UNCHAINED) as Major Marquis Warren, Golden Globe nominee Kurt Russell (ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK) as John \u201cThe Hangman\u201d Ruth, Golden Globe nominee Jennifer Jason Leigh (MRS. PARKER AND THE VICIOUS CIRCLE) as Daisy Domergue, Emmy nominee Walton Goggins (Justified) as Chris Mannix, Academy Award nominee Demian Bichir (A BETTER LIFE) as Bob, Academy Award nominee Tim Roth (RESERVOIR DOGS) as Oswaldo Mobray, Michael Madsen (RESERVOIR DOGS) as Joe Gage and Academy Award nominee Bruce Dern (NEBRASKA) General Sanford Smithers. Also, Channing Tatum (FOXCATCHER) has signed on for a role in the project. This will be Leigh, Bichir and Tatum\u2019s first film with Tarantino, while the rest of the cast has worked with him in the past. THE HATEFUL EIGHT is the eighth feature for the filmmaker, whose last film DJANGO UNCHAINED earned him an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay and grossed over $425 million worldwide.<\/p>\n

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In THE HATEFUL EIGHT, set six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Russell) and his fugitive Daisy Domergue (Leigh), race towards the town of Red Rock where Ruth, known in these parts as \u201cThe Hangman,\u201d will bring Domergue to justice. Along the road, they encounter two strangers: Major Marquis Warren (Jackson), a black former union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix (Goggins), a southern renegade who claims to be the town\u2019s new Sheriff. Losing their lead on the blizzard, Ruth, Domergue, Warren and Mannix seek refuge at Minnie’s Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie\u2019s, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. Bob (Bichir), who\u2019s taking care of Minnie\u2019s while she\u2019s visiting her mother, is holed up with Oswaldo Mobray (Roth), the hangman of Red Rock, cow-puncher Joe Gage (Madsen), and Confederate General Sanford Smithers (Dern). As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our eight travelers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock after all\u2026<\/p>\n

Written and directed by Tarantino, THE HATEFUL EIGHT is produced by long-time Tarantino collaborators Richard N. Gladstein, Stacey Sher and Shannon McIntosh. Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein and G. Mac Brown are THE HATEFUL EIGHT\u2019s executive producers, and Coco Francini and William Paul Clark are associate producers.<\/p>\n

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Presented in glorious 70mm, THE HATEFUL EIGHT will be released by TWC in 2015. The film marks a continuation of the long-standing relationship between the celebrated filmmaker and the Weinsteins, who have collaborated on all of Tarantino\u2019s films, from RESERVOIR DOGS through DJANGO UNCHAINED.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny actor who jumps on board with one of Quentin\u2019s films is in for a wild and rewarding ride,\u201d commented Bob and Harvey Weinstein, TWC Co-Chairmen. \u201cWe couldn\u2019t be any more thrilled with the fantastic group of performers we\u2019ve assembled for THE HATEFUL EIGHT \u2013 some perennial fixtures in his movies and some newcomers \u2013 and can\u2019t wait to kick off the shoot in Telluride.\u201d<\/p>\n

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