Tarantino grew pretty fond of Django while working on Django Unchained, and he was keen to follow the character on further adventures. Keen to give himself a creative challenge he decided to follow-up the movie with a series of paperback novels instead, with the first being titled Django In White Hell. The basic setup was identical to The Hateful Eight, with Django being trapped in a lodge with a group of unsavoury characters. Tarantino loved the idea so much he decided it was his next movie, only he realised a fatal flaw in the story; Django didnt belong there. The story was about horrible people doing horrible things, so having a heroic character with a moral centre didnt make sense. Django was rewritten to become Sam Jacksons nasty bounty hunter Major Warren, who nobody would mistake for a nice guy. The movie has a little easter egg that links the two characters though; in Major Warrens introduction scene hes sitting in a saddle on top of a pile of corpses, with the saddle formerly belonging to Django himself.
