For years we’ve heard about a possible extended version of ‘The Hateful Eight’ that was going to be able to be seen on Netflix, but time passed and the project seemed to have been forgotten. That’s why we got a tremendous surprise when the platform announced its release date: it will be the next April 25th when available there. The problem is that for now it is only announced in the United States.
4 episodes
The miniseries version of ‘The Hateful Eight’ will be divided into four episodes lasting 50 minutes each, but details on how much unpublished material it will include have not yet been finalized. Quentin Tarantino promised years ago that it would include at least 25 minutes of previously unseen footage:
Like, 42 different websites would rather speculate on whether it’s different than just see it. So it’s all this misconception. “Oh, they’re just playing the credits…it’s just what was on the Roadshow version.” No! I don’t know an exact timeline as to how much new material is on it, but it’s something like, like, 25 minutes, if not longer. And there are sequences that are very different. One of the things that I really like is that it didn’t work in the feature film, we had moved on, but in this kind of situation it was different.
Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Demián Bichir, Tim Roth and Michael Madsen‘The Hateful Eight’ tells the story of how a bounty hunter is bringing a fugitive to justice, but a blizzard leads him to take refuge in a small haberdashery, where things soon get complicated…
Tarantino has promised that “We don’t reissue it all from the beginning, but a lot, and the result is different. Some sequences are more similar than others compared to the movie, but it has a different feel. It has a different feel to it that I really like a lot. Also, the movie already had a literary aspect to it, so it definitely has that quality of chapters unfolding“.
For my part, I don’t think ‘The Hateful Eight’ is one of Tarantino’s best films, but it was very entertaining and I’ll be the first to see this version in miniseries format as soon as Netflix also includes it in its catalog on Spain, and you?
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