Jennifer Jason Leigh Joins Quentin Tarantino’s ‘The Hateful Eight’
So far, info on the cast forQuentin Tarantino’sThe Hateful Eighthas been little more than speculation. While we have a good idea that actors such as Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, and Walton Goggins will have roles in the film, thanks in part to their participation in the live-read of the script, nothing has been officially revealed. Now forThe Hateful EightJennifer Jason Leighis set as the first official cast member. She’ll play Daisy Domergue, a woman wanted for murder who begins the film in the clutches of a bounty hunter.
The Wraphas news of the casting, and also says thatBruce Dernis set for the cast. (He was another expected player.)
Set in Wyoming during a tough winter after the Civil War,The Hateful Eightbegins in a stagecoach carrying a sheriff, two bounty hunters and the prisoner to be played by Jennifer Jason Leigh. (For the record, the bounty hunters will likely be played by Jackson and Madsen, and the sheriff by Goggins.) Those four, along with the coach driver, hole up in a haberdashery to wait out a blizzard. There, with three other characters on hand, tensions quickly rise until things get well out of hand. None of the characters are heroes — there’s a reason this one is calledThe Hateful Eight.
The Weinstein Company is backingThe Hateful Eight, andshooting will commencein Colorado in December. A holiday 2015 release is planned for Tarantino’s new Western. And the film is shooting in 70mm which should be an interesting thing to see. If this was more of a landscape film we’d know what to expect, but since this film largely takes place inside two rather confined spaces, the coach and the store, this will be one of the more unlikely 70mm westerns.
