Almost like a stagecoach making its way across the deadly landscape of the American West, Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight has endured many twists and turns on the way to its 2015 release, but it’s finally passed a comforting landmark. The movie officially has a cast now, which means it’s going to be way harder to cancel again.
The eponymous eight are: Samuel L. Jackson as Major Marquis Warren, “The Bounty Hunterâ€; Kurt Russell as John Ruth, “The Hangmanâ€; Jennifer Jason Leigh as Daisy Domergue, “The Prisonerâ€; Walton Goggins as Chris Mannix, “The Sheriffâ€; Demáin Bichir as Bob, “The Mexicanâ€; Tim Roth as Oswaldo Mobray, “The Little Manâ€; Bruce Dern as General Sanford Smithers, “The Confederateâ€; and Michael Madsen as Joe Gage, “The Cow Puncher.†Channing Tatum will also make a cameo, which has become something of a hobby for him.
A few of these castings were known before, but it’s good to see that neither Dern nor Madsen was punished after being fingered by QT as the source of the script leak that originally led the director to cancel the project. Unless being cast as a guy called “The Cow Puncher†is a punishment?