Roadshow Films has secured Australian and New Zealand rights to Academy Award® winning writer/director Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming Western The Hateful Eight.
CEO Joel Pearlman said, “Roadshow Films was hand-picked by Quentin Tarantino to release the film in Australia and New Zealand and we are greatly honoured to be working with him and The Weinstein Company on what is sure to be the next masterpiece in his portfolio.”
The film will premiere with a one week exclusive season in 70MM at selected cinemas followed by nationwide release, dates to be confirmed.
The cast includes Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins , Demian Bichir, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen and Bruce Dern.
Set after the Civil War, the plot follows a stagecoach which 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 film will debut in the US on December 25.