Quentin Tarantino put his new film project on hold after one of six insiders leaked his script for The Hateful Eight, but that hasn't stopped it from spreading around Hollywood.
LA-based website The Wrap has got hold of a copy and revealed that the entire film was meant to be shot on the rare and expensive 70mm film and follow the adventures of two bounty hunters, roles that were likely intended for Samuel L. Jackson and Tarantino-regular Michael Madsen.
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The Wrap reports that the action centres around a town called Red Rock, and believe the ensemble western includes 'obvious parts for Bruce Dern and Christolph Waltz'. Waltz starred in Tarantino's last film, the western-esque Django Unchained, while Dern and his agents are deemed the most likely culprits behind the initial leak, according to Tarantino. Dern's agency have denied that they allowed the script to get out.
According to The Wrap, The Hateful Eight's opening scenes take place on a 'snow covered mountain range' but the majority of the film takes place in smaller internal settings, including a haberdashery and a stagecoach, with 'a little Russian roulette, some vomit and frequent duplicity'.
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The film will not be appearing on cinema screens any time soon as Tarantino explained that he would be publishing it as a book because of the leak. He told Deadline last week that because he could not trust the six confidantes he showed the script to, he had 'no desire to make it. I'll publish it. I'm done.'
Although few people have been able to stop the script getting into even more pairs of hands - with The Wrap saying there is a link being created for interested parties to download it from the internet - nobody has come forward to admit they were the person responsible.
Tarantino has filed a lawsuit against Gawker Media for publishing a link to the 146 page script. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Tarantino's lawsuit said: 'Rather than merely publishing a news story reporting that Plaintiff’s screenplay may have been circulating in Hollywood without his permission, Gawker Media crossed the journalistic line by promoting itself to the public as the first source to read the entire Screenplay illegally.'
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