Earlier this January, we reported that director Quentin Tarantino had just named his recently announced Western : The Hateful Eight. Well, thanks to a hateful six, it looks like Hateful Eight isn't happening any time soon.

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Tarantino himself called Deadline to announce that he is so angry about The Hateful Eight script leaking online that he has delayed the film, if he even makes it at all. He first learned of the leak through his agent, who suddenly began receiving phone calls from other agents pitching clients for roles in the project.“I’m very, very depressed,” the director said. “I finished a script, a first draft, and I didn't mean to shoot it until next winter, a year from now. I gave it to six people, and apparently it’s gotten out today.”The issue, according to Tarantino, is not that the public has the script, but the sense of betrayal that a leak would occur before he even had a chance to meet with the Weinsteins to discuss production.“I am not talking out of both sides of my mouth," Tarantino explained, "because I do like the fact that everyone eventually posts it, gets it and reviews it on the net. Frankly, I wouldn't want it any other way. I like the fact that people like my sh*t, and that they go out of their way to find it and read it. But I gave it to six motherf**king people!”Four of those six people are Django Unchained producer Reggie Hudlin and three actors who have worked with Tarantino before: Django's Bruce Dern and Reservoir Dogs' Michael Madsen and Tim Roth. Tarantino knows Hudlin let his agent read the script, though it never changed hands. He has also ruled out Roth, believing the culprit to be an agent of Dern or Madsen. He asks anyone with information, "Please name names."In the meantime, Tarantino will meet with publishers this week to turn The Hateful Eight into a book."I’m going to publish it, and that’s it for now," he says. "I give it out to six people and if I can’t trust them to that degree, then I have no desire to make it. I’ll publish it. I’m done. I’ll move on to the next thing. I’ve got ten more where that came from.”When asked if there was a chance that Tarantino could ultimately come back to this Western as a film, he responded, “I could totally change my mind, I own the f**king thing. But I can tell you, it’s not going to be the next thing I do. It’s my baby, and if the muse calls me later to do it, we’ll do it. I was thinking about the idea of maybe publishing it before I made it, but now that deal happens for sure, and I’m not doing it next.”Apparently, Tarantino was working on another project simultaneously with The Hateful Eight that he will now make his next film. Understandably, he did not divulge the nature of that second screenplay.

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