Channing Tatum Up for Tarantino's HATEFUL EIGHT
I remember back in the day when Channing Tatum first started his acting career, I bashed him as an actor all the time. I couldn't understand why he kept getting cast in movies. Now I'm a fan! It's crazy how the world works, but the guy has really become a talented actor who makes good movies that are worth watching.
Now Quentin Tarantino is looking to cast him in a major role in his upcoming western epic The Hateful Eight, and I hope he gets it. I could easily see Tatum in a Tarantino film, and it will be interesting to see what kind of character that the director has in store for him.
The Hateful Eight follows the steadily ratcheting tension that develops after a blizzard diverts a stagecoach from its route, and traps a pitiless and mistrustful group which includes a competing pair of bounty hunters, a renegade Confederate soldier, and a female prisoner in a saloon in the middle of nowhere.
The film starts shooting early next year, and if cast, Tatum would join Samuel L Jackson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, Kurt Russell, and Tim Roth. Other names that have been mentioned as being involved include Jennifer Lawrence and Viggo Mortensen, but there has been no confirmation of that.
What do you think of Tatum possibly saddling up for a Tarantino movie?