Channing Tatum Joins the Stellar Cast of Quentin Tarantino's 'Hateful Eight'
Channing Tatum at the New York Film Festival premiere of Foxcatcher on Oct. 10, 2014
Channing Tatum has joined the cast of Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, according to an official announcement from the Weinstein Company. The Wyoming-based Western, which takes place “six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War,” is about a motley crew of travelers trapped inside a haberdashery during a blizzard. These characters — the “hateful eight” of the title — include a pair of bounty hunters (Samuel L. Jackson and Kurt Russell), a fugitive (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a self-appointed sheriff (Walter Goggins), a hangman (Tim Roth), a cowpuncher (Michael Madsen), a Confederate general (Bruce Dern), and a guy named Bob the Mexican (Demian Bichir). No information has been released about who Tatum will be playing; someone less hateful, perhaps? The plot reportedly revolves around a poisoned coffee pot at the characters’ stagecoach stopover.
It’s been a rocky road to production for Hateful Eight, with Tarantino briefly abandoning the project after a draft of the script leaked online in January. The director decided to move forward again this spring, and in recent months, both Viggo Mortensen and Jennifer Lawrence were rumored to be in talks for roles. Filming is scheduled to begin early next year in Telluride, Colorado.
