‘The Hateful Eight’ Trailer: Stakes Are High For Quentin’s Crew

While director Quentin Tarantino is busy on other fronts these days, The Weinstein Company is continuing to prime the pump for The Hateful Eight, the writer-director’s Western that hits theaters in 70mm on Christmas Day and on January 8 nationwide. The first full trailer has just dropped for the post-Civil War drama, which pits eight rugged souls with different agendas holed up in the same Wyoming stagecoach stop during a snowstorm.

Kurt Russell plays a hangman who is taking his prisoner (Jennifer Jason Leigh) to Red Rock to be strung up, and lets his fellow travelers know that the $10,000 reward that comes with delivering her belongs to him. That sure gets everyone — Samuel L Jackson, Walton Goggins, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, Demian Bichir — thinking.

Tarantino takes it from there; as Jackson’s bounty hunter says, “Startin’ to see pictures, aint ya?”

Check out the trailer above.