UPDATE: First ‘Hateful Eight’ Poster Confirms 2015 Release

UPDATE:

Here is the first poster for Quentin Tarantino’s Hateful Eight, which confirms that the western film will be hitting theaters in 2015, and will be shot in CinemaScope.

The poster is striking and simple, while keeping the western genre in mind. It illustrates a black stagecoach being pulled by six black horses across a snow-white background. What is left is a smear of bright red blood in its wake.  

At a panel at San Diego Comic-Con this year, director Quentin Tarantino reassured fans that the western film The Hateful Eight is still happening.

The announcement was made at Dynamite Comic’s panel for his upcoming Django Unchained – Zorro comic book, which is set to go on sale this November. Tarantino said to the eager crowd, “Yes, we are going to be doing The Hateful Eight. All for you. We weren’t sure about it, but I just decided just now,” according to IGN and Collider.

Back in January, the script for The Hateful Eight was disclosed online creating a “very, very depressed” Tarantino. After a legal battle with Gawker over the leak, he subsequently declared that the western would not be his next film.

“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,” he said.

However, a few months later following the incident, the director announced that drafts for the film are still in the making, and not at a halt.

Tarantino previously staged a reading of the script last April that included stars Bruce Dern, Kurt Russell, Amber Tamblyn, Michael Madsen, Walton Goggins, Tim Roth and Samuel L. Jackson.

Below you can find the unofficial synopsis for the western film as revealed at the script reading:

The Hateful Eight follows the steadily ratcheting tension that develops after a blizzard diverts a stagecoach from its route, and traps a pitiless and mistrustful group which includes a competing pair of bounty hunters, a renegade Confederate soldier, and a female prisoner in a saloon in the middle of nowhere.

If Hateful Eight is in fact Tarantino’s next project, it will follow Django Unchained, his western hit film that received two Academy Awards. Filming for the anticipated movie is likely to begin sometime in early 2015.