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

2.The Leaked Script Is Totally Different

For a while there, it was touch and go on whether The Hateful Eight was even going to get made. Before filming finally began, the project was best known not as the next Quentin Tarantino film, but as the Quentin Tarantino script that got leaked onto the internet €“ mainly thanks to gossip site Gawker €“ and caused quite a lot of controversy and anger from the director/screenwriter. He'd planned on filming The Hateful Eight in the summer of 2014, before the script got leaked. Tarantino claimed to have given the script to only a few trusted colleagues, including Bruce Dern, Tim Roth and Michael Madsen, which means that the leak almost certainly came from one of them (or someone in their employ or entourage, at least). The film almost only existed as the leak, or the live read €“ QT considered turning it into a novel €“ but thankfully, it's now getting made. And thankfully, he's re-written the shooting script considerably from the leaked one, with an entirely different ending and everything. So if you read the leak, you haven't spoilt anything for yourself. You rotter. You made Quentin Tarantino cry.