10 Fascinating Backstories Behind Famous Movies

10. The Hateful Eight Originally Started Out As A Sequel To Django Unchained

Given its limited location and small cast, The Hateful Eight doesn't have the feel of a sequel. And yet Quentin Tarantino's latest western originally started life as a follow-up to Django Unchained, titled "Django in White Hell."

It would have had Django in the Major Warren Marquis role, before the writer/director decided that something about the film's premise didn't sit naturally with Django.

You can imagine that Tarantino had envisioned this as the second film in his Django-centered "Dollars" trilogy, à la Sergio Leone, before he ultimately decided to remove the character to make way for another.

So why did Tarantino remove Django from this tale? Well, the film pits a bunch of unsavoury individuals against one another in a very tight space, none of whom have anything even close to resembling a "moral compass." It's hard to imagine Django as one of the titular eight, because he's more of a good guy and this is a story that only really works with a cast of mostly terrible people.

In homage to his original title for the film, though, Tarantino named one of the chapters in the film "Black Man, White Hell."