Quentin Tarantino starts shooting his new western, The Hateful Eight, soon. Is Channing Tatum joining the film?
Channing Tatum has been hard at work on Magic Mike XXL these past few months, which is heading into cinemas next summer. He's also set to begin work on playing Gambit, a part of theX-Men universe, in the near future. But his most immediate assignment may now be Quentin Tarantino's upcoming western, The Hateful Eight.
Tarantino finally starts filming The Hateful Eight this January, after a well-documented will-he-or-won't-he-make-it saga. Said saga kicked off when the script was leaked online, continued when Tarantino threatened legal action against a website (not us, thankfully. We pay our lawyers in biscuits), and eventually turned around when the writer-director confirmed he was pressing ahead with the film after all. It'll be his second western on the bounce, after his Oscar-winning Django Unchained.
The cast of The Hateful Eight hasn't been formally announced, but it's expected to be made up of faces from a live script readthrough event earlier in the year. So, that'd include Samuel L Jackson, Bruce Dern, Kurt Russell, Tim Roth, and Michael Madsen, amongst others.
Tatum's role in The Hateful Eight, should it be confirmed, has not yet been revealed. But Deadline describes it as a major one.
It also confirms that Tarantino will be shooting The Hateful Eight on 65mm film, with the aim being the widest 70mm movie release in over two decades.
More on The Hateful Eight as we hear it.
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