Quentin Tarantino Says Ennio Morricone Will Score ‘Hateful Eight’ & Suggests He May Do A TV Mini-Series Again

Quentin Tarantino had just dropped the first-ever seen seven minutes of his Western “The Hateful Eight” on audiences at Comic-Con. The movie is a Western, but also a chamber drama of sorts, eight rough and tumble men and women stuck in a haberdashery during a Colorado snowstorm. There’s bounty hunters, ex-Confederate soldiers, prisoners, everyone has an agenda and no one can be trusted.

Shot in 70MM, audiences in San Diego were wowed by the footage, but perhaps more interestingly, the director revealed some heretofore unknown details. Tarantino says legendary film composer Ennio Morricone is going to score the wintry western. And while that’s exciting news, we should caution, Morricone was supposed to write original music for “Inglourious Basterds” and that never happened. And then during “Django Unchained,” Morricone put Tarantino’s slavery epic on blast and skewering the director for the cartoonish violence in his film. The composer even went as far to say he'd "never work...