Quentin Tarantino was gearing up to make the western The Hateful Eight his next movie, but when the script leaked online, he shut the project down (he’s also suing Gawker for leaking the script). While he’s considering publishing a book version, Film Independent has announced that there will at least be a staged live-reading of the script (or presumably the script that was leaked; Tarantino hadn’t reached a final draft). Tarantino is holding the event for Film Independent, “the nonprofit arts organization that produces the Film Independent Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival”. The event will not be recorded or live streamed, but I’m glad Tarantino is at least willing to provide this reading to a live audience. Additionally, it’s for a good cause since “all proceeds go towards supporting the year-round programing efforts of Film Independent at LACMA.”

Hit the jump for the press release, which includes the brief synopsis for The Hateful Eight.

Here’s the press release. I’ve put the synopsis in bold (also, the synopsis sound really exciting, so I’m even more disappointed that Tarantino is putting it aside for the time being).

For ticket information visit: http://www.filmindependent.org/lacma/films/HatefulEight. They go onsale Wednesday, April 9 and they’re $200 each.