Sad news for fans of Quentin Tarantino as the fabled director announces he’s postponing his latest project HATEFUL EIGHT after the script was leaked yesterday. In an interview, Tarantino vented his frustrations and reported that he would not being making it as his next film. It’s unfortunate because along with INGLORIOUS BASTERDS and DJANGO UNCHAINED it would probably have formed a wonderful western trilogy. While it will no doubt still be made in due course the director claimed he would first publish it, whether simply as a script or in a book or graphic novel form is not yet known. Here’s what the man had to say:
“I’m very, very depressed. I finished a script, a first draft, and I didn’t mean to shoot it until next winter, a year from now. I gave it to six people, and apparently it’s gotten out today. I gave it to one of the producers on ‘Django Unchained,’ Reggie Hudlin, and he let an agent come to his house and read it. That’s a betrayal, but not crippling because the agent didn’t end up with the script. There is an ugly maliciousness to the rest of it. I gave it to three actors: Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, Tim Roth. The one I know didn’t do this is Tim Roth. One of the others let their agent read it and that agent has now passed it on to everyone in Hollywood. I don’t know how these fucking agents work, but I’m not making this next. I’m going to publish it, and that’s it for now. I give it out to six people and if I can’t trust them to that degree, then I have no desire to make it. I’ll publish it. I’m done. I’ll move on to the next thing. I’ve got ten more where that came from.”
It wasn’t all disappointment though as the director stated he was happy that people are so ruthlessly interested in his work:
“I am not talking out of both sides of my mouth, because I do like the fact that everyone eventually posts it, gets it and reviews it on the net. Frankly, I wouldn’t want it any other way. I like the fact that people like my shit, and that they go out of their way to find it and read it. But I gave it to six motherfucking people! Starting this week, I’ll be setting meetings with publishers.”
Presumably it’s going to a be long wait before we get and inkling of whats in store for Tarantino’s next project which will probably be kept tightly under wraps and away from the sticky fingers of Hollywood. Is the director over reacting? Or is this a justifiable move to maintain the mystery? Let us know what y’all thinking below.
Source:Deadline
