--- title: See Samuel L. Jackson in the Trailer for 'The Hateful Eight' description: The teaser trailer for "The Hateful Eight," Quentin Tarantino's eighth film, has arrived, with Samuel L. Jackson in the lead. canonical: https://time.com/3994400/the-hateful-eight-trailer-quentin-tarantino/ author: Eliza Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-12T17:07:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:23:20.926Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: The Trailer for Quentin Tarantino's 'The Hateful Eight' Has Finally Arrived og:description: The teaser trailer for "The Hateful Eight," Quentin Tarantino's eighth film, has arrived, with Samuel L. Jackson in the lead. og:url: https://time.com/3994400/the-hateful-eight-trailer-quentin-tarantino/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta3a9998caedabeff/69885ee23c1639350a4593a7/samuel-l-jackson1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Samuel L. Jackson attends "Show Me A Hero" New York Screening on August 11, 2015. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Trailer for Quentin Tarantino's 'The Hateful Eight' Has Finally Arrived twitter:description: The teaser trailer for "The Hateful Eight," Quentin Tarantino's eighth film, has arrived, with Samuel L. Jackson in the lead. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta3a9998caedabeff/69885ee23c1639350a4593a7/samuel-l-jackson1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Trailer for Quentin Tarantino's _The Hateful Eight_ Has Finally Arrived  by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Aug 12, 2015 5:07 PM CUT  Samuel L. Jackson attends "Show Me A Hero" New York Screening on August 11, 2015. Samuel L. Jackson attends "Show Me A Hero" New York Screening on August 11, 2015.John Lamparski--WireImage  by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Aug 12, 2015 5:07 PM CUT Nineteenth-century bounty hunters embark on a dangerous journey to bring an outlaw to justice. There’s bloodshed galore and, of course, Samuel L. Jackson. It might sound like the synopsis of _Django Unchained_, Quentin Tarantino’s 2012 update on the spaghetti Western. But it is, in fact, the premise of Tarantino’s long-anticipated—and nearly canceled—forthcoming film, _The Hateful Eight_. Unlike _Django_, Tarantino’s eighth film takes place in the years following the Civil War, and he’s moved the setting from the antebellum South to a blustery Wyoming. The new teaser trailer introduces the hateful eight, most notably Jackson as an ex-Union soldier (“The Bounty Hunter”), Jennifer Jason Leigh as a fugitive with a bounty on her head (“The Prisoner”) and Kurt Russell as the bounty hunter hoping to bring his prisoner to justice (“The Hangman”). The teaser trailer comes after a long and rocky path to release. After the script leaked in January 2014, Tarantino considered calling off the movie. He then directed a live reading of that draft, wrote a few more drafts and a new ending, and ultimately decided to move forward with production. _The Hateful Eight_, whose eight is rounded out by Walton Goggins, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern and Demián Bichir, hits limited theaters on Christmas Day, with wide release on Jan. 8, 2016. **MORE:** [Quentin Tarantino Says He’ll Film Another Western After _The Hateful Eight_](http://time.com/3954719/quentin-tarantino-ennio-morricone-hateful-eight/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3994400/the-hateful-eight-trailer-quentin-tarantino/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3994400/the-hateful-eight-trailer-quentin-tarantino/"},"headline":"The Trailer for Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight Has Finally Arrived","datePublished":"2015-08-12T17:07:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:23:20.926Z","description":"Tarantino is back with another Western featuring Samuel L. 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