The original score was Italian composer Ennio Morricone's first and only for a Tarantino film, his first complete Western score in thirty-four years, and his first for a high-profile Hollywood production since Brian De Palma's Mission to Mars.ĭistributed by The Weinstein Company in the United States, The Hateful Eight was released on December 25, 2015, in a limited roadshow release on 70 mm film, before expanding wide theatrically on December 30, 2015. Filming began on December 8, 2014, near Telluride, Colorado. After the script leaked in January 2014, he canceled the film and instead directed a live reading at the United Artists Theater in Los Angeles, before reconsidering and resuming progress on the project. He conceived it as a novel and sequel to his previous film Django Unchained, before deciding to make it a standalone film. Tarantino announced the film in November 2013. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Demián Bichir, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen and Bruce Dern, as eight strangers who seek refuge from a blizzard in a stagecoach stopover some time after the American Civil War. The Hateful Eight (sometimes marketed as The H8ful Eight) is a 2015 American Revisionist Western thriller film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.

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