Tarantino's The Hateful Eight liveread: 'Reminiscent of Reservoir Dogs'

Director's new script, revealed during a liveread featuring Bruce Dern, Kurt Russell and Samuel L Jackson, harks back to his early work, says John Patterson

Tarantino sues Gawker over Hateful Eight script leak
Blog: Gawker: Tarantino should blame himself for script leak

Director Quentin Tarantino and the website Gawker are at each other's throats over the latter's now infamous link to an online copy of Tarantino's latest screenplay, The Hateful Eight. Enraged that this had happened when casting had barely commenced, the director shut down the movie unilaterally (perhaps finally ...) and sued Gawker. In the meantime, to give the material a more controlled public airing, Tarantino arranged a live-read of the script in association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's film programme.

We gather at the venerable United Artists Theatre, a sumptuous 1927 movie palace, all faux-Byzantine motifs and three tiers of balconies, bearing our $200 tickets and plenty of questions. Is The Hateful Eight dead? Will this therefore be like some mythical reading of a legendary never-made movie, like Welles' Heart of Darkness or Jodorovsky's Dune? Which actors will appear, and will they be the same six to whom the leaked script was first sent?

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Source: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/apr/20/quentin-tarantino-hateful-eight-liveread-reservoir-dogs

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