Quentin Tarantino cancels The Hateful Eight after lashing out at actors

Posted on 22 January 2014
By James McAllister
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Grind house director Quentin Tarantino has announced that he is furious his script for his upcoming Western The Hateful Eight has been leaked online.

The director said: “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.”

The director reports that he gave the script to six people including Django Unchained producer Reggie Hudlin and actors Micheal Madsen, Bruce Dern and Tim Roth.

Tarantino believes the script had been passed onto one of the actors agents who in turn leaked it to the whole of Hollywood.

The furious film maker said: “The one I know didn’t do this is Tim Roth. One of the others let their agent read it and that agent has not passed it on to everyone in Hollywood.”

In reaction the Pulp Fiction director has pulled the flick from his filming schedule.

“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.”

It remains unclear what project Tarantino will move onto next, but he did admit:

“The idea was I was going to write two scripts, I wasn’t going to shoot the Western until next winter and I have been full of piss and vinegar about the other one. So now I’ll do that one.”

Quentin did leave us with a glimmer of hope, hinting that the project may still see the light of day.

“I could totally change my mind; I own the F***ing thing. But I can tell you it’s not going to be the next thing I do.”

No further details have been released about Tarantino’s next project which will follow his Western blockbuster Django Unchained.

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