Official Teaser Trailer for The Hateful Eight

The movie that was almost never made, now has a teaser trailer.

Quentin Tarantino has always had a soft spot for westerns, and now will present us with another following the very successful Django Unchained. The Hateful Eight will be coming to theatres this year and will show off a very impressive cast including; Samuel L. Jackson as Major Marquis Warren aka “The Bounty Hunter”, Kurt Russell as John Ruth aka “The Hangman”, Jennifer Jason Leigh as Daisy Domergue aka “The Prisoner”, Walton Goggins as Chris Mannix aka “The Sheriff”, Demián Bichir as Bob aka “The Mexican”, Tim Roth as Oswaldo Mobray aka “The Little Man”, Michael Madsen as Joe Gage aka “The Cow Puncher”, and Bruce Dern as Gen. Sanford Smithers aka “The Confederate”.

The story follows a group of eight strangers who get trapped in a carriage stopover during a blizzard, and will take place shortly after the Civil War. Tarantino did not want to make this just a generic western either.

“It’s less inspired by one Western movie than by Bonanza, The Virginian, The High Chaparral,” Tarantino said. “Twice per season, those shows would have an episode where a bunch of outlaws would take the lead characters hostage. They would come to the Ponderosa and hold everybody hostage, or go to Judge Garth’s place — Lee J. Cobb played him — in The Virginian and take hostages. There would be a guest star like David Carradine, Darren McGavin, Claude Akins, Robert Culp, Charles Bronson or James Coburn. I don’t like that storyline in a modern context, but I love it in a Western, where you would pass halfway through the show to find out if they were good or bad guys, and they all had a past that was revealed. “I thought, ‘What if I did a movie starring nothing but those characters? No heroes, no Michael Landons. Just a bunch of nefarious guys in a room, all telling backstories that may or may not be true. Trap those guys together in a room with a blizzard outside, give them guns, and see what happens.’ ”

There is no official release date for this film as of yet, but if we learned anything from Django it is that Tarantino can make one hell of a western.