Quentin Tarantino's New 'Hateful Eight' Script Is on High-Security Lockdown
Tarantino at the 2014 LACMA Art + Film Gala in Los Angeles, on November 1, 2014
Quentin Tarantino will not be foiled again.
The Oscar-winning filmmaker and his producers at The Weinstein Company are going to extreme measures to make sure that the screenplay to The Hateful Eight — now new and improved — will not get leaked to the internet again.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Tarantino and TWC are keeping the screenplay to his epic western, the first draft of which made its way to the internet last winter, under lock and key, with potential financiers forced to read it under supervision at the Weinstein’s office in Beverly Hills.
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Tarantino was so incensed about the original version leaking that he initially decided to shut the film down, though he later relented after hosting a live reading of the first draft in LA. He has since re-written the screenplay, and plans to begin shooting the film — which stars Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Lee, Tim Roth, and Michael Madsen — this winter, in Colorado.
The film is due out in fall of 2015.
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