Ennio Morricone to Score Quentin Tarantino's 'The Hateful Eight'; New Poster Revealed; 'Kill Bill 3' Teased

One of the best, most informative panels of Comic-Con over the weekend was Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight. The director delivered to fans a whopping 7-minutes of footage, showing the star-studded Western's violence and colorful cast of killers and criminals. And while that was great, Tarantino's obvious focus was informing the crowd about the history of 70mm film, in particular the traveling road show he intends to take the movie on using the expanded format. So the panel was begun with a brief tutorial on 70mm, narrated by none other than Samuel L. Jackson who couldn't be there in person. A wintry new poster for the film was also released, showing blood splattered across the fallen snow making for quite the stark image. That's a pretty cool tagline, too.

Tarantino also dropped at least one brand new detail about the movie, revealing that legendary Western composer Ennio Morricone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) would be scoring it, his first in the genre in four decades. It's a big deal, because Tarantino had been trying to get Morricone for Inglourious Basterds but he was busy on another project. Morricone then came out and bashed the director's Django Unchained pretty badly, adding that Tarantino "places music in his films without coherence". He lightened those statements a while later, and clearly all is good between them now. A wintry 

Continuing to make headlines, Tarantino again teased Kill Bill 3, saying Uma Thurman wants to do it but he has to wait for the girl who played Vernita Green's (Vivica A. Fox) daughter to grow old enough to seek revenge for her mother's death. He's been saying that same line for years but at least he's sticking to it. Tarantino also said he has maybe one more film left in him for this decade since he usually does three every ten years. And he also teased a move to TV if shooting on film gets completely wiped out. It's not the first time he's talked "retiring" from movies, nor is it the first he's said about a move to television. For awhile he considered a 4-hour Django Unchained miniseries, and maybe that's something he still has cooking for the future. 

The Hateful Eight begins its traveling 70mm road show on Christmas Day, followed by a national release two weeks later.