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Quentin Tarantino Reveals That ‘The Hateful Eight’ Will Be a Comedy 0 806

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Quentin Tarantino has revealed that his upcoming film The Hateful Eight will be a comedy, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.

The director, who is set to retire after the film’s release, said:

“I can definitely say that as bleak as our movie is, we are definitely the funniest snow Western ever made… This is funnier than The Great Silence, it’s funnier than Day of the Outlaw… funnier than McCabe & Mrs Miller.”

This news may comes as a bit of a surprise as the plot doesn’t seem to immediately lend itself to comedy. IMDB states that the plot is as follows:

While racing toward the town of Red Rock in post-Civil War Wyoming, bounty hunter John “The Hangman” Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his fugitive prisoner (Jennifer Jason Leigh) encounter another bounty hunter (Samuel L. Jackson) and a man (Walton Goggins) who claims to be a sheriff. Hoping to find shelter from a blizzard, the group travels to a stagecoach stopover located on a mountain pass. There, they encounter four strangers, and soon learn that they may not make it to their destination after all.

However, despite this, there are members of the cast who have had high profile comedic roles including Samuel L. Jackson (Extras), Channing Tatum (Jump Street franchise) and Jennifer Jason Leigh (Fast Times at Rigdemont High). Also, there are always elements of dark comedy running through all of Tarantino’s films.

The director also revealed in the interview that despite his love of spaghetti western films his influences for the film came from the small screen, specifically The Virginian and Bonanza. “You wait the whole episode to find out, ‘Are they a good guy or are they a bad guy?’ ” he says. “So I thought, ‘What if I did a story that was made up of nothing but those characters?’ So there’s no good guys. There’s no Little Joe.”

The Hateful Eight is set to be released on 26th December 2015 in the U.S. It doesn’t yet have a UK date but we’ll keep you up-to-date. Along with the header image, make sure to check out the first official Hateful Eight images from back in May.

Source: EW

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Watch: Incredible New Trailer for ‘The Revenant’ 0 1243

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We don’t usually post trailers individually – saving them for the Trailer Watch – but this one was just too good to pass up.

The Revenant is the new film from acclaimed director Alejandro González Iñárritu, who most recently won an Oscar for Birdman. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson and Will Poulter in a tale of a forntierman in 1820 who sets out on a path of vengeance who left him for dead after a bear mauling.

We already had one amazing teaser trailer, now check out the equally great new trailer below:

Could this be the film that finally wins Leo his Best Actor Oscar? Quite possibly!

The Revenant is set for release in the UK on January 15th, 2016.

Vincent Cassel To Play Villain in Next ‘Bourne’ Film 0 1467

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After a fourth Bourne film in which Jason himself was conspicuous by his absence, things are returning to the old but brilliant formula of Matt Damon starring and Paul Greengrass directing.

We already know that in addition to Damon returning (rejoice!), Tommy Lee Jones and woman-of-the-moment Alicia Vikander are part of the cast, playing a tough CIA operative and (presumed) love interest, respectively, as well as Julia Stiles reprising her small but crucial role as Bourne helper Nicky Parsons. But now we’re getting word that one of the best French actors in the business is also joining the cast.

Variety has the news that the wonderful Vincent Cassel has signed on to the spy action sequel as its main villain, which will see him match wits and possibly even go toe-to-toe go with the former amnesiac hero. Although exact plot details are being kept secret for the time being, sources are saying that Cassel will play an assassin tracking Bourne. No doubt he will tie in with the Treadstone/Blackbriar history of the Bourne mythology – maybe he’ll be a scorned fellow assassin who feels Bourne somehow wronged him/was chosen ahead of him.

The series has a pedigree of casting great actors as assassins, whether it be Clive Owen in The Bourne Identity, Karl Urban in Supremacy, Edgar Ramirez in Ultimatum and Oscar Isaac in Legacy.

I was already looking forward to the return of the Damon-Greengrass team but the addition of Cassel – genuinely one of my favourite actors of modern times – only makes me wish next summer would get here sooner.

The as-yet-untitled Bourne sequel is set to start shooting this year for a July 29th, 2016 release date.

Source: Variety