'The Hateful Eight' Official Trailer

After teasing the film back in August, The Weinstein Company has released a brand new full-length trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming Western epic The Hateful Eight. According to the film’s official synopsis:

In The Hateful Eight, set six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his fugitive Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), race towards the town of Red Rock where Ruth, known in these parts as “The Hangman,” will bring Domergue to justice. Along the road, they encounter two strangers: Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), a black former union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a southern renegade who claims to be the town’s new Sheriff. Losing their lead on the blizzard, Ruth, Domergue, Warren and Mannix seek refuge at Minnie’s Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie’s, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. Bob (Demián Bichir), who’s taking care of Minnie’s while she’s visiting her mother, is holed up with Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth), the hangman of Red Rock, cow-puncher Joe Gage (Michael Madsen), and Confederate General Sanford Smithers (Bruce Dern). As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our eight travelers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock after all…

Shot on 70 mm film with an aspect ratio of 2.75:1 — an ultrawide aspect ratio predominately used in the ’50s and ’60s — by Robert Richardson (Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained) in Telluride, Colorado and scored by none other than Ennio Morricone, The Hateful Eight will hit select theaters this Christmas before getting a wide release January 8, 2016.