An Extended Version of Quentin Tarantino's THE HATEFUL EIGHT Arrives on Netflix as a 4-Part Series
I was happy to see that an extended version of Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight was released on Netflix. What I wasn’t expecting was that it would be split up into a four-part miniseries! Each part runs about 50 minutes long.
The four episodes are titled, “Last Stage to Red Rock” (50 minutes), “Minnie’s Haberdashery” (51 minutes), “Domergue’s Got A Secret” (53 minutes), and “The Last Chapter” (56 minutes). For those of you who don’t want to do any math, the total length of the film is 210 minutes. The original cut had a run-time of 168 minutes.
I’m not sure why Netflix decided to break it up into four parts. Maybe for people who don’t want to watch it in one sitting? This extended cut of the film was released in select theaters for a brief time, which I wish I would have been able to see, but at least we can watch it on Netflix now… in four parts which is certainly an interesting way to present it.
I loved The Hateful Eight. I think it’s the best film that Tarantino has made yet.
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 (Demian 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…
What do you all think about The Hateful Eight Extended Edition being released as a four-part miniseries?
Via: IndieWire