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Tarantino Still Busted By Leydon Over Numerous Similarities Between Hateful Eight and 55 Year-Old “Rebel” Episode

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Originally posted on 8.31.15: In a Cowboys & Indians piece called “Quentin Tarantino: Rebel Filmmaker?”, Variety critic Joe Leydon has noted several similarities between the basic plot bones of Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight (Weinstein Co., 12.25) and an episode from the Nick Adams western series The Rebel (’59 to ’61) called “Fair Game.” The episode, … Read more

Tarantino Kinda Busted By Leydon Over Numerous Similarities Between Hateful Eight and 55 Year-Old “Rebel” Episode

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In a just-posted Cowboys & Indians piece called “Quentin Tarantino: Rebel Filmmaker?”, Variety critic Joe Leydon has noted several similarities between the basic plot bones of Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight (Weinstein Co., 12.25) and an episode from the Nick Adams western series The Rebel (’59 to ’61) called “Fair Game.” The episode, written by Richard … Read more

Hateful Eight Event Was Cool, But The Script…

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Last night’s reading of an early draft of Quentin Tarantino‘s Hateful Eight script was partly a gas and partly a downer. Was it worth the $200 bucks I paid to attend? Yeah, I think so. It was quite the novel theatrical event given the loose experimental vibe and the amusing spectacle of watching several top-dog … Read more

$200 Bills To Hear Hateful Eight Read Aloud?

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Real-Deal Development Announced Today by Film Independent: “Due to last-minute date and venue changes, tickets to the World Premiere of a Staged Reading by Quentin Tarantino of The Hateful Eight will now go on sale to Film Independent Members this Friday, April 11 at 12:00 noon Pacific. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this change … Read more

“The Hateful Family”

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I’ve put quotes around the above headline because it came from Variety critic Owen Gleiberman during a back-and-forth we had this morning about Quentin Tarantino‘s Manson Family movie. The subject was Gleiberman’s 7.15 essay about same — “Quentin Tarantino Does Manson? That’s News That Should Thrill Cinema Lovers.” The 12th paragraph gets to the nub … Read more

Hateful 8 Cat Suddenly Out of The Bag — Weinstein Okays Limited Reviews — Grierson, Kohn Jump First

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Nothing specific is revealed here but spoiler whiners will bitch anyway…just saying: Until this morning the review-embargo date for Quentin Tarantino‘s The Hateful Eight was 12.21 — i.e., next Monday. But this morning Weinstein Co. reps called or mass-texted a bunch of trades and gave them the green light. Screen International‘s Tim Grierson ran first … Read more

Hateful’s Comic Aspect

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The word around the campfire is that the Weinstein Co. gradually began to realize that The Hateful Eight is being processed by screening invitees as a kind of black comedy. I’m told the Weinsteiners wanted the Golden Globers to re-classify it as a comedy/musical but the effort didn’t succeed. The Hateful Eight isn’t my idea … Read more

Eight Makes Hate

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How much farther can Quentin Tarantino crawl up his own ass in search of material for his latest cinematic swagger dance? “Pretty much every account of last night’s performance has failed to say whether The Hateful Eight sounded good enough to be a decent movie,” I wrote after the 4.19.14 live reading of an early … Read more