Quentin Tarantino beings filming ‘The Hateful Eight’

By Christopher Locke | Jan 23, 2015

Following a script leak that almost sent the film into oblivion, the acclaimed director begins production on his latest film, which also may be his last.

Fans of Quentin Tarantino’s one-of-a-kind dialogue and his bloody fun violence rejoice as filming begins for his post-Civil War western The Hateful Eight, starring signature Tarantino players Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth, and Michael Madsen along with other high profile stars Kurt Russell, Bruce Dern and Channing Tatum.

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Reports have been popping up all over the internet stating that the highly anticipated film may be his last, which would destroy all hope for rumors that Kill Bill Vol. 3 would eventually be hitting theaters.

But fans suffered quite a scare when this time last year the film’s script was leaked. The frustrated Tarantino filed suit against the site reported to have initially leaked the script and even considered dropping the film altogether.

Luckily he decided against a such drastic action and continued on with the film which is to be produced by The Weinstein Company, who have had a hand in every single one of Tarantino’s films since his initial break out into the scene with 1992’s Reservoir Dogs.

Always one to voice his disapproval of cinema’s conversion into the digital age, Tarantino will shoot the film on 70mm, hoping to craft an experience that demands to be seen on the big screen.

If the film is to be his final film, it will mark his 10th directorial effort. Though it may seem like a small number of films for the director’s 23 year career, Tarantino feels it is always good to go out on top.

Other famed directors who made a limited number of films include Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky who only made 7 feature films over his 24 year career and yet is considered one of the greatest film-makers of all time. With the increase in ticket prices over the last several years, movie-goers would agree that quality always trumps quantity.

Tarantino burst onto the scene with his iconic Reservoir Dogs in 1992 only to follow the acclaimed crime thriller up two years later with the legendary Pulp Fiction which cemented his place in film history and for which he won his first Oscar for Best Original Screenplay which he shared with Roger Avary. Tarantino would win his second Oscar nearly two decades later for Django Unchained.

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Tarantino’s legacy will always be synonymous with controversy regarding his use of racial slurs and extreme violence in his pictures, not to mention his iconic and explosive personality, but no one can deny what he has accomplished for the independent film-maker and that he remains one of the most influential film-makers of his generation.

But then again, Raging Bull was originally meant to be director Martin Scorsese’s final film, so let’s not assume we have seem the last of the great Tarantino.

[H/T: THR]

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