It's only been a few days since Quentin Tarantino declared that he was putting the brakes on what would have been his next directing effort, The Hateful Eight , after the first draft of his script was leaked by Hollywood agents. Now details on what the Western would have been about have to come light from a reporter claiming to have read the script.

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The Hateful Eight was reportedly designed to be a 70-millimeter Western epic despite the fact that the script is said to contain just two settings: a stagecoach and the haberdashery.According to TheWrap : "The script is an ensemble Western with obvious parts for [Michael] Madsen and [Bruce] Dern, as well as Tarantino stalwarts like Samuel L. Jackson and Christoph Waltz. Jackson and Madsen would likely both play bounty hunters returning human plunder to a town called Red Rock in exchange for hefty rewards. Their characters, a former major in the Union army and a man named John Ruth, dominate the first two of the script’s five chapters.They run into a Southerner named Chris Mannix on the road, and three of them, along with their driver — a living prisoner [Domergue] and three dead bounties strapped to the roof — arrive at a haberdashery to take shelter from an oncoming blizzard. Yet the proprietors, Minnie, Sweet Dave and her other colleagues, are nowhere to be found. In their place are four men, a Southern general (likely Dern), an alleged hangman [Oswaldo], a Frenchman named Bob and a cowboy named Joe Gage. Mistrust, coffee and violence ensue."The site, which posted what are purportedly pages from the draft making the rounds in Hollywood, describes the script as being more akin to a play than a movie. And like Inglorious Basterds and Pulp Fiction, the story is broken into chapters: “Last Stage to Red Rock,” “Son of A Gun,” “Minnie’s,” ‘The Four Pasggengers” and “Black night, White Hell.”Tarantino has said he hopes to publish The Hateful Eight in book form and move on to a different project as his next film instead.