After Django Unchained, the Western was a genre there was quite a few people wished Quentin Tarantino would stay in for a wee bit longer, an...
After Django Unchained, the Western was a genre there was quite a few people wished Quentin Tarantino would stay in for a wee bit longer, and after a shaky start, The Hateful Eight grants that wish. Now we have our first real look at the ensemble Western, with EW putting three of the titular eight, former union soldier turned bounty hunter Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), fugitive Daisy Domergue ( Jennifer Jason Leigh), and famed bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell), front and centre on the cover of their latest issue. Gotta say Jackson and Russell are rocking some some truly magnificent facial hair.
The Hateful Eight is set for release later this year.
Synopsis: 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 (Kurt Russell) and his fugitive Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), race towards the town of Red Rock where Ruth, known in these parts as “The Hangman,” will bring Domergue to justice. Along the road, they encounter two strangers: Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), a black former union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a southern renegade who claims to be the town’s 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’s, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. Bob (Demian Bichir), who’s taking care of Minnie’s while she’s visiting her mother, is holed up with Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth), the hangman of Red Rock, cow-puncher Joe Gage (Michael Madsen), and Confederate General Sanford Smithers (Bruce Dern). As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our eight travelers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock after all…
