Quentin Tarantino's 'The Hateful Eight' Coming to Netflix as a TV Series

According to Vanity Fair, the streaming platform will make available to its users the first season of the extended version of The Hateful Eight on April 25 this year. For now, it will only be available to US subscribers. The original film will also be available on the same day.

The Hateful Eight premiered in 2015 and ran for 167 minutes. The film was nominated for various awards in several categories.

A few years after the American Civil War, bounty hunter John Ruth travels with his runaway Daisy Domergue to Red Rock, where Ruth will bring the woman to justice. Along the way, they meet Marquis Warren, a former Union soldier, and Chris Mannix, a southerner who claims to be the sheriff. The four take shelter from a snowstorm at a mountain pass, where they meet four other strangers. There, eight travelers will discover that they may not make it to Red Rock.

In 2019, Quentin Tarantino himself spoke about the idea of a miniseries and the offer he received from Netflix. The offer took the director by surprise, but he was intrigued.

In an interview with SlashFilm, he explained that the experience of editing The Hateful Eight is different from what a viewer might have in a movie theater. Recalling and describing some of the works, the director said:

“About a year after it came out, maybe a little less, my editor Fred Ruskin and I met and then worked very hard. We edited the film into 50-minute segments and easily got four episodes. Let's not re-release everything from scratch, but we will re-release a lot and it works differently."

How has the film changed? According to Quentin Tarantino, it depends on what fragment is being viewed and what relationships are being established:

“Some scenes are more similar than others compared to the movie, but it has a different feel. It has a distinct feel that I really like. And (in any case) there was already a literary aspect to the film, so it definitely has a "chapter development" quality to it.

Based on the director's words in 2019, each chapter of the miniseries that will be available on Netflix for US subscribers (currently) will be approximately 50 minutes long.