*UPDATED with posters featuring the rest of The Hateful Eight cast!
When Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight arrives this Christmas it's going to be a very big deal. Not in the way every Tarantino film is a major event, but in a much larger way as he takes it on a traveling roadshow in full 70mm format, and the latest poster wants to make sure you see it as he intended.
Kurt Russell and Jennifer Jason Leigh grace the new poster for The Hateful Eight in their roles as"The Hangman" John Ruth and "The Prisoner" Daisy Domergue. And right there branded in the bottom corner is the Ultra Panavision 70 stamp, promising this will be the first movie in nearly 50 years to be released in that format. Russell and Leigh's characters are just two of the eight undesirables stuck in Minnie’s Habberdashery as a snowstorm rages. The rest of the cast includes Samuel L. Jackson, Walton Goggins, Demian Bichir, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, Zoe Bell, and some kind of cameo by Channing Tatum. Here's the official synopsis:
In THE HATEFUL EIGHT, set six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Russell) and his fugitive Daisy Domergue (Leigh), race towards the town of Red Rock where Ruth, known in these parts as “The Hangman,” will bring Domergue to justice. Along the road, they encounter two strangers: Major Marquis Warren (Jackson), a black former union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix (Goggins), a southern renegade who claims to be the town’s new Sheriff. Losing their lead on the blizzard, Ruth, Domergue, Warren and Mannix seek refuge at Minnie’s Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie’s, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. Bob (Bichir), who’s taking care of Minnie’s while she’s visiting her mother, is holed up with Oswaldo Mobray (Roth), the hangman of Red Rock, cow-puncher Joe Gage (Madsen), and Confederate General Sanford Smithers (Dern). As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our eight travelers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock after all…
The Hateful Eight gets a two-week 70mm run beginning Christmas Day, followed by a digital theatrical release on January 8, 2016. [EW]
