After much back and forth, Quentin Tarantino finally confirmed The Hateful Eight this weekend at Comic-Con.

The status of The Hateful Eight has been in question for a while. Originally, Tarantino had revealed that he intended to make the Western his next project. After that, the script was leaked online and he dropped all plans to work on the project again and even filed lawsuits (that were eventually dropped.) It had seemed at that point that the film would never come to fruition, but in April Tarantino did a stage live read of the script and said that he was working on further drafts. Later, a report came out that said The Hateful Eight was a go, but it was never officially confirmed.

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At Comic-Con, Tarantino finally confirmed that he would indeed be making the movie.

Tarantino held a question and answer session at the conference’s Dynamite Entertainment panel to discuss the upcoming comic that will crossover his Django character from Django Unchained and Zorro (a comic we’re very much eager to see).

“Yes, we are going to be doing The Hateful Eight,” Tarantino told an audience member who was at Tarantino’s stage live read. “All for you. We weren’t sure about it but I just decided just now.”

We’re really excited that The Hateful Eight will finally, officially be happening. If the prior, unconfirmed report is true, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Dern, Michael Madsen, Kurt Russell, James Remar, Amber Tamblyn, Walton Goggins, and Zoe Bell will star in the movie. They all participated in the live read as did James Parks, Denis Menochet, Tim Roth, and Dana Gourrier, and those actors haven’t been attached as of yet.

Tarantino also revealed that he might do a sci-fi movie in the future.

“If you had asked me a few years ago I would have said: ‘Nah, not really, I don’t know.’ But I have a little idea right now. It’s a little flower, you know, like a bean sprout, but those tend to grow into stalks. So this is the first time I’ll be able to say ‘maybe.’ It won’t be a spaceship sci-fi, it’ll be Earthbound.”

Tarantino has never done anything science fiction, and we’d be joyous to see him tackle that kind of film.

Source: The Guardian.