Based on all the information released so far, The Hateful Eight is going to be about as far away from Django Unchained as it's possible to get. Whilst still being a throwback Western directed by Quentin Tarantino, anyway. Where Django was an expansive revisionist history that half-inched an existing character like Inglourious Basterds, The Hateful Eight is mostly original. Django was an epic, spanning several season, locations, and characters. The KKK made an appearance. Jamie Foxx's Django and Christoph Waltz's Schultz travelled all across the South. Neither actor appears here, and the action seems mostly confined to one location. In fact, from the sounds of it, the Tarantino film The Hateful Eight has most in common with is Reservoir Dogs. A bunch of ne'er-do-wells holed up in one small, confined space. Tensions flaring. Loyalties tested. Clashing personalities...clashing. Michael Masden playing a lunatic. Probably less sixties bubblegum pop, admittedly. Tarantino returning to his roots, whilst also taking everything he learned from Django Unchained? Even without Masden as The Cow Puncher, that's reason to be excited. Thrown in Masden, you've got an instant classic.
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