Yesterday, it was reported that Channing Tatum was circling a role in Quentin Tarantino’s bloody new Western The Hateful Eight. While he clearly hasn’t snagged a huge role, he is now confirmed for the cast alongside fellow QT newbie Demian Bichir{
Set a few years after the ragged end of the Civil War, the film finds a stagecoach waylaid in wintry Wyoming wilderness and the passengers forced to seek shelter at Minnie’s Haberdashery, a stopover on a mountain pass. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth and his fugitive Daisy Domergue are trying to reach the town of Red Rock where Ruth, known in these parts as “The Hangman,” will bring Domergue to justice. Along the way, they encounter two strangers: Major Marquis Warren, a black former Union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix, a Southern renegade who claims to be the town’s new Sheriff.
Arriving at Minnie’s, they’re greeted not by the owner, but by Bob, who’s taking care of the place while Minnie’s visiting her mother, He’s holed up with Oswaldo Mobray, the hangman of Red Rock, cow-puncher Joe Gage, and Confederate General Sanford Smithers. As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our eight travelers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock after all…
Samuel L. Jackson is Warren, Kurt Russell’s playing Ruth, Jennifer Jason Leigh takes on Domergue, Walton Goggins co-stars as Mannix, Bichir is set as Bob, Tim Roth will be Mobray, Michael Madsen is Gage and Bruce Dern has nabbed the role of Smithers. Tatum's role has yet to be revealed.
Tarantino is aiming to kick off shooting early next year in Telluride, Colorado, with a release date planned for later in 2015. Expect local prop warehouses to run dry of fake human claret...