Quentin Tarantino DROPS The Hateful Eight Movie After Script Leak

He's shelved his new Western. Literally.

Never one to shirk the limelight, Quentin Tarantino recently announced that his next movie was to be a Western titled The Hateful Eight. Well, it now appears that that particular project won't be happening €“ at least not any time soon, at least €“ due to the writer/director having a bit of a wobble at the screenplay having leaked online. Tarantino spoke to Deadline about his frustrations. Open about his anxiety over the leak, Tarantino confessed, "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." Most recently having directed Django Unchained, Tarantino revealed that his agent, Mike Simpson, broke the news to him after having received several calls from agents looking to suggest their clients for roles in the Western. So just who is responsible for leaking the screenplay for The Hateful Eight? There are a couple of prime suspects, and it appears that Tarantino is on a mission to find the culprit. With a few select actors, such as Michael Madsen, Samuel L. Jackson, Christoph Waltz, Tim Roth and Bruce Dern, being linked to the now-delayed/possibly-doomed The Hateful Eight, Quentin broke down who could be responsible. The Chin revealed, "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 the agent has now passed it on to everyone in Hollywood. I don't know how the ****ing 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 10 more where that came from." QT added, "I hadn't give it to Christoph, I haven't given it to Sam Jackson. I gave it to three mother****ing actors. We met in a place, and I put it in their hands. Reggie Hudlin's agent never had a copy. It's got to be either the agents of Dern or Madsen. Please name names." Quentin-Tarantino-Western As for the script being available online for all to dissect, Tarantino is said to be fine with this. "I am not talking out of both sides of my mouth," he said, "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 sh*t, and that people go out of their way to find it and read it. But I gave it to six mother****ing people! Starting this week, I'll be setting meetings with publishers." Despite his obvious annoyance, the legendary mind behind the likes of Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill admitted, "I could totally change my mind; I own the ****ing thing. But I can tell you, it's not going to be the next thing I do. It's my baby, and if the muse calls me later to do it, we'll do it. I was thinking about the idea of maybe publishing it before I made it, but now that deal happens for sure, and I'm not doing it next." Having had The Hateful Eight and another mystery project on his upcoming plate, it appears that this other unnamed project will be QT's next effort. "The idea was, I was going to write two scripts," he explained, "I wasn't going to shoot the Western until next winter, and I have been full of p*ss and vinegar about the other one. So now I'll do that one." This beggars the question: just whose loose lips (of hands) have caused The Hateful Eight to be delayed, possibly shelved; and will this person be involved in the project if it ever does make it to the big screen? It seems that the obvious money would be on an agent passing the screenplay on, with it eventually falling into the hands of somebody who has uploaded it to the World Wide Web. Now over to you, who do you think the culprit is and do you feel that Quentin Tarantino is just simply overacting a tad?
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