Samuel L. Jackson Reteams With Quentin Tarantino For 'The Hateful Eight' Live Read

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Finding a role for him in five of his movies to date, the partnership between director Quentin Tarantino and Samuel L. Jackson has been steady over the years, with the actor taking roles both big and small. Whenever QT has called, Jackson has pretty much been there. So who better for Tarantino to ring up than his old pal when it's time to do a live read of his leaked script, "The Hateful Eight"?

Well, that's just what he's done, with Deadline reporting that Jackson will be on stage with a batch of still unannounced actors tomorrow night at Film Independent at LACMA (yes, the date was changed and moved up). No word yet on his role. The event is sold out, so you're sh*t out of luck if you've been sleeping on this. But to recap, the western which was going to be Tarantino's next film until the script was widely leaked, follows a colorful group of misfits — a competing pair of bounty hunters, a renegade Confederate soldier, and a female prisoner — who are forced to contend with each when they are trapped in a saloon in the middle of nowhere by a blizzard.

It's classic Tarantino — be sure to read our feature Black Night, White Hell: A Look At Quentin Tarantino’s 'The Hateful Eight' Western for more details — and keep your ears to the ground this weekend. We're sure the usually chatty Tarantino will have a lot say about his script and what how it got out there.



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[Thatrogueassdiaz]

Is this movie still coming out?

 

[Mr. Manhattan]

Its safe to say Samuel Jackson is QTs MVP actor

 

[Real]

What's the Hateful 8 about?

 

[Crakface]

What's the Hateful 8 about?

Not sure but ****** will be said.

 

[The G.O.D II]

Oh great. Tarrantino's favorite house ****** is back to demean himself some more. Wonder what role he will play next? Maybe a blonde cross dresser with purple lips

Edit: Its a western. He cefinitely will be a former slave

 

[Crakface]

Theysum up the rest of the script accordingly:

The script is an ensemble Western with obvious parts for Madsen and Dern, as well as Tarantino stalwarts like Samuel L. Jackson and Christoph Waltz. Jackson and Madsen would likely both 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. Yet the proprietors, Minnie, Sweet Dave and her other colleagues, are nowhere to be found. In their place are four men, a Southern general (likely Dern), an alleged hangman, a Frenchman named Bob and a cowboy named Joe Gage.


Tarantino on the leaking of the script. This shyt probably wont be coming out.

I gave it to three actors: Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, Tim Roth. The one I know didn't do this is Tim Roth. One of the others let their agent read it, and that agent has now passed it on to everyone in Hollywood. I don't know how these fukking agents work, but I'm not making this next. I'm going to publish it, and that's it for now. I give it out to six people, and if I can't trust them to that degree, then I have no desire to make it. I'll publish it. I'm done. I'll move on to the next thing. I've got 10 more where that came from."

 

[duncanthetall]

He was fukking heated when the script got released. Surprised he's still making it

 

[jwinfield]

He was fukking heated when the script got released. Surprised he's still making it

He's not. They're just doing a live read of the script.

 

[sun raw]

Bruce Dern would've fukking killed in this, too bad it's not getting made.

 

[FaTaL]

He was fukking heated when the script got released. Surprised he's still making it

wasnt inglorious b*stards leaked?

 

[jwinfield]

wasnt inglorious b*stards leaked?

Yeah, but the difference was

IB's script was finished, I believe this was still a draft

He gave the script to 6 people he's close with so he knows it was one of them that did it and that probably hurt the most.

 

[Jazzy B.]

I'm still annoyed this isn't getting made

Jackson, Waltz, Madsen and Roth

Madsen It was him who leaked it, snake ass nikka

 

[FaTaL]

Yeah, but the difference was

IB's script was finished, I believe this was still a draft

He gave the script to 6 people he's close with so he knows it was one of them that did it and that probably hurt the most.

yea but when agents are involved it could of been anybody

 

[jwinfield]

yea but when agents are involved it could of been anybody

Quentin Tarantino Shelves 'The Hateful Eight' After Betrayal Results In Script Leak - Deadline.com

“I hadn’t given it to Christoph, I haven’t given it to Sam Jackson,” he said. “I gave it to three motherfukking actors. We met in a place, and I put it in their hands. Reggie Hudlin’s agent never had a copy. It’s got to be either the agents of Dern or Madsen. Please name names.”

He gave it to the actors and no one else was supposed to see it.