Quentin Tarantino Brings the Cast of the Hateful Eight on Jimmy Kimmel Live

Quentin Tarantino, Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, and Rick Ross all took over Jimmy Kimmel Live Monday night to talk about the QT’s eight movie The Hateful Eight, hitting theaters on Christmas Day. The Weinstein Company is calling THE QT’s funniest movie yet, and in fact, are fighting to have it classified as a comedy, so we’ll consider this comedy news until we see the film for ourselves. All the clips are great and you should watch the entire episode but here’s a little taste of what you missed if you missed Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday.

Bruce Dern is in the film, and he said he’s worked with six directing geniuses adding Quentin Tarantino to a list that includes Elia Kazan, Alfred Hitchcock, Douglas Trumbo, Francis Ford Coppola and Alexander Payne, and you’d better believe QT loved every second of it.

Tarantino explained his reasoning behind why he only plans to make eight movies in his career. I’m not going to think that I have four movies or six movies that I will eventually get around to doing them all. If I only think that I only have two movies, well that keeps it at the top of the sphere if you know what I mean. That means those ones better be good and I’d better mean everything about them. And I actually like that kind of focus.”

Sam Jackson talked about all his famous QT film lines, and said there has only been one place on the entire planet where people did not quote movie lines at him and you can catch the answer to that in clip #2. Sam said he sometimes got tired of hearing people quote Ezekiel speaks at him, but changed his mind when one night he turned around to find Marlon Brando quoting the entire speech right in his face.

In clip three you can hear QT talking about almost deciding to shitcan the entire movie when the script leaked. He says he reacted badly, because he decided to write the film in an experimental new way. He wanted to tell the story three different times and then select which was going to be the final telling, so having an unfinished version floating around was particularly upsetting.