Watch The Hateful Eight Featurette Guide To 70MM Presentation

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Christmas might only be 4 weeks away but 2016 is 5 weeks and 6 weeks time Quentin Tarrantino’s  The Hateful Eight arrives in UK, Irish and U.S Cinema.Much like Django Unchained Tarantino’s new homage to Spaghetti Whestern, a new featurette showcases the upcoming roadshow presentation of his film in 70mm.

In THE HATEFUL EIGHT, set six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his fugitive Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), race towards the town of Red Rock where Ruth, known in these parts as “The Hangman,” will bring Domergue to justice. Along the road, they encounter two strangers: Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), a black former union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a southern renegade who claims to be the town’s new Sheriff. Losing their lead on the blizzard, Ruth, Domergue, Warren and Mannix seek refuge at Minnie’s Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie’s, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. Bob (Demian Bichir), who’s taking care of Minnie’s while she’s visiting her mother, is holed up with Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth), the hangman of Red Rock, cow-puncher Joe Gage (Michael Madsen), and Confederate General Sanford Smithers (Bruce Dern). As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our eight travelers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock after all…

When it comes to Tarantino films Featurette are never your bog standard promos, if anything they are educational. Running at nearly 8 minutes with the help of some of the film’s cast Tarantino delivers a lesson in film making and why 70mm was necessary for this film. It’s a history lesson in the projection, sadly this edition of the film (which will have extra footage comapred to standard cinema version) will be limited audience. The Weinstein Company who are distributing the film in U.S seem to be pouring money into various U.S cinemas retrofitting them to show the film. Sadly there is very few cinemas in UK that can show that format, but the question is is the money going to be worth it? Hopefully it will be!

The Hateful Eight will be released in UK, Ireland and USA on 6th January 2016 (25th December limited in USA).