At the bottom of this post is a look at the first advertisement for Quentin Tarantino‘s The Hateful Eight, which will be included in Empire magazine’s issue next month (via Twitter) and I can’t tell if it’s a joke or not, but the ad promises the film will be released in CinemaScope and it will be rolled out as a “Special Roadshow Engagement”. In today’s terms I have to assume this means the film will be shot in a 2.39:1 aspect ratio and when it comes to the “roadshow” release we’re talking a limited roll-out, unless the Weinsteins and Tarantino are going old school, setting up giant screens in massive fields and really doing this up big with souvenir programs and reserved seating. Who knows, could be fun.
And in other news, a lot of outlets are running a story with a headline saying Tarantino and the Weinsteins have said they will be releasing Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair in 2015 on a limited basis. Of course, this is just click bait headline tactics as that’s not exactly true. Quoted by Slashfilm at Comic Con, Tarantino said the following:
What’s going on with that is originally back when Kill Bill was going to be one movie, I wrote an even longer anime sequence. So you see in the movie [O-Ren] kill her boss but then there was that long hair guy… The big sequence was her fighting that guy. I.G. [The Japanese Anime Studio] who did Ghost in the Shell said we can’t do that and finish it in time for your thing. And [plus] you can’t have a thirty-minute piece in your movie. I said okay. It was my favorite part but it was the part you could drop. So we dropped it and then later when I.G. heard we were talking about doing Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair — they still had the script so without even being commissioned, they just did it and paid for it themselves. It’s really terrific. Anyway, The Weinstein Company and myself were talking about actually coming out with it sometime, not before the year is out, but within the next year with limited theatrical engagement as well.
So, they were “talking about” doing it, not saying they were going to do it. We’ll see if that ever happens as Tarantino is very good at talking loud and saying nothing, but at the very least it does look like he’s holding to the plans to get Hateful Eight underway at the beginning of next year.
