Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight: 10 Things You Need To Know

By Tom Baker /

6. It's His Rio Bravo

So the basic set up of The Hateful Eight, as released this past week, is that Russell's bounty hunter is delivering Leigh's fugitive to Roth's hangman in a town called Red Rock. The near-Arctic conditions force them to hole up with Jackson and Goggins's strangers at Minnie€™s Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive, they are greeted not by the proprietor but four unfamiliar faces. Demián Bichir's Bob, who€™s taking care of Minnie€™s while she€™s visiting her mother; Roth's Oswaldo Mobray; Michael Masden's cow puncher; and Bruce Dern's Confederate General Sanford Smithers. €œAs the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our eight travelers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock after all€€ So basically, it's a Western set in a single location, with tensions flaring thanks to a mismatched bunch of people in a tough situation. It's pretty much Rio Bravo, then?