'The Hateful Eight' Release Date Confirmed For New Year's Day; Quentin Set To Retire Soon?

by Ernest Aguila / Dec 14, 2015 03:13 AM EST

PARIS, FRANCE - DECEMBER 11: (L-R) Kurt Russell, Tim Roth, Quentin Tarantino and Walton Goggins attend the 'The Hateful Eight' Paris Premiere at Le Grand Rex on December 11, 2015 in Paris, France.

"The Hateful Eight" release date has been confirmed for New Year's Day, according to sorces. Moviegoers and fans of Quentin Tarantino are delighted about the earlier release.

Previously, Quentin Tarantino's upcoming film "The Hateful Eight" was announced to be released on Christmas Day on select theatres that would show the film in 70mm and those that did not have any access to them would have to wait a full two weeks, as reported by The Verge.

However, Quentin Tarantino fans all over should be more than pleased to find out that the Weinstein Company has moved up "The Hateful Eight" release date from its previously announced January 8, 2016 to New Year's Day, as stated by Indie Wire.

"The Hateful Eight" will open wide on the newly select date of January 1, 2016, with its 35mm digital print version, according to the source.

In more recent news, the renowned film director has revealed his plans of working on stage plays and writing novels in the future after he retires as a film-maker, according to The Guardian.

"I'm probably only going to make 10 movies, so I'm already planning on what I'm going to do after that," said Tarantino, courtesy of the source.

"That's why I'm counting them. I have two more left," he added. "I want to stop at a certain point."

"What I want to do basically is I want to write novels and I want to write theatre and I want to direct theatre," the director further stated. "I actually want to do a theatrical adaptation of 'Hateful Eight' because I actually like the idea of other actors having a chance to play my characters and see what happens from that."

Quentin Tarantino's 8th film follows Kurt Russel, who portrays a bounty hunter, travelling with a prisoner (played by Jennifer Jason Leigh) to Wyoming. As they take shelter from an ongoing snow blizzard at a trading post lodge, the two encounter a group of men who seem untrustworthy and who all might want a piece of the reward money, which are rounded out by a star-studded cast of Samuel Jackson, Michael Madsen, Walton Goggins, Demian Bichir, and Tim Roth.

Stay tuned for "The Hateful Eight" release on New Year's Day!