Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Hateful Eight’ Isn’t Dead After All

Quentin Tarantino’s latest Western script, The Hateful Eight, was leaked back in January and he was not happy with it. The director only shared the draft with six people, but yet it was still leaked on the internet by Gawker Media for all to see.

Tarantino slammed Gawker with a lawsuit after the website posted a 146-page draft of the script along with the title, “Here Is The Leaked Quentin Tarantino ‘Hateful Eight’ Script.”  As a result, Deadline.com reported that Tarantino put the brakes on The Hateful Eight after his script was passed around Hollywood without his permission telling the website, “I’m very, very depressed.”

Now, three months later, Tarantino is back in action working on a new version of the script.  On Saturday, April 19, Film Independent and Tarantino hosted a reading of the original, leaked draft to a 1,200-person audience at the Ace Hotel in downtown LA. The script was read by numerous actor Tarantino has worked with in the past, including Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Dern, Walton Goggins, Kurt Russell, Michael Madsen, Tim Roth and Amber Tamblyn, and took 177 minutes to fully read.

According to Saturday’s read, The Hateful Eight will be shot in 70mm to give it that authentic Tarantino Western style.  The film’s script is so incredibly detailed that the description page for one scene is reportedly a page long.  One scene Tarantino intends to completely rewrite is the film’s final act titled “Black Night, White Hell.”  He is currently on his third version of the script.

Tarantino’s copyright infringement lawsuit with Gawker Media is set for January 27, 2015.