(rock music)
(audience cheering)
- [Chris] Thank you, I love you too.
I know! Saturday of Comic-Con, oh my God.
So, just so you know how much I wanted
to do this panel, I
left the Nerdist panel.
I was across the way and I'm like,
"I'm sorry guys. I gotta go."
And then there was a minute
where they were like, "Aw!"
And I was like, "If Quentin Tarantino
"asked you to do anything,
you'd do it, just shut up!"
And they were like, "Okay, okay, okay."
So I'm very excited to
present to you today,
the "Hateful Eight" panel!
(audience cheering)
You're gonna see a lot of stuff
that no one's seen
before, and it's actually
a very juicy amount of footage,
and you're gonna see
people that you wanna see.
So I'm gonna shut up so
we can get into this.
We're gonna leave plenty of
time for audience questions.
So this is gonna be a very,
very, very fan-driven panel.
So without a further ado,
I would like to introduce
the 70 mm trailer of "Hateful Eight."
I would like to bring out the man
that you just saw up
there talking about it.
Please welcome, Quentin Tarantino!
(audience cheering)
Thank you.
Welcome, Mr. Tarantino!
Let's bring out a lot of the people
that you saw just a second ago.
Please welcome to the
stage, Mr. Kurt Russell!
(audience cheering)
Also, Jennifer Jason Leigh!
(audience cheering)
Walton Goggins!
(audience cheering)
Demián Bichir!
(audience cheering)
Mr. Tim Roth!
(audience cheering)
Michael Madsen!
(audience cheering)
And, Mr. Bruce Dern!
(audience cheering)
Welcome, everyone. Welcome.
- [Quentin] Good to be here.
- [Chris] That's good! Fantastic, welcome!
Hey, Kurt Russell!
- [Kurt] Hello.
- [Chris] How's it going?
- [Kurt] Good.
- [Chris] Sick mustache.
Really rad. Always on-point.
So how did you get involved, basically?
Did Quentin just call you and
say, "I wanna do a thing,"
and you said, "Well, I'll
do whatever you want"?
Or, did you, how did it come to pass?
- It was last year.
- [Quentin] Yeah.
- And Quentin called and he said,
"I'm gonna do a reading of this script."
"Would you wanna take
it farther than that?"
And, I said, "Sure! That'd be great,"
and you go on to rehearse it.
So a couple days into rehearsal,
I found out that we were
gonna actually be doing it
in front of a crowd about this size here.
We rehearsed it, and then
after we did it, it was quite
a fun experience and
it played really well,
and Quentin decided he
wanted to make the movie,
and I was just thrilled to be having
the opportunity to be a part of it.
- [Chris] How was it
different working with...
I mean, if it feels like, I'm assuming
from an outsider's perspective,
is it's probably a unique
experience working with him.
- [Kurt] Well I could get myself
into a lot of trouble here. (laughing)
There's nobody like this guy.
- [Chris] Yeah.
- [Kurt] He's in a league of his own,
and I think all you guys know that.
I think he's just a... (audience cheers)
It's gonna be hard to sit next to him.
We could go on and on, but I,
it's honestly truth that every couple
of generations or so, somebody
comes along who does it
not only differently, but
does it his or her way
in such a way that it's inimitable.
When you see five frames of anything
he does, you know who's doing it,
and I really mean this
sincerely, and I think all the
great actors that are
sitting here would agree.
I would wish this for
every actor, actress,
that they have the opportunity
to work with Quentin once.
It's a fantastic experience,
not just in terms
of what he does, but it's
really more how he does it.
It's a circus that you wanna be a part of.
- [Chris] Well, we have
about 20 minutes, so I wanna
make sure that we get as many
fan questions as possible
so that you guys can drive this,
and have all of your questions answered.
So, let's shine the light.
Light!
(audience and panelists exclaim)
- [Chris] Amazing!
- [Quentin] I like your
tailor, young lady!
(laughter)
- [Chris] Hi, what's your name?
- [Alissa] My name's Alissa Camacho.
- [Chris] Well hello,
what is your question?
- [Alissa] My question is
for Mr. Tarantino, and it is,
if you were going to
use the same style anime
from "Kill Bill: Volume 1" into
"The Hateful Eight" somehow?
- [Quentin] No, there's not an
anime sequence in "The Hateful Eight."
Where were you when I needed you?
That's probably a pretty good idea.
(audience laughing)
I'm thinking about some of the flashbacks
could have been really
good in Japanese anime.
That would be cool.
No, we're not doing it on this one,
but I'm very flattered and gratified
that you're such a fan of that.
And you look amazing!
(applause)
- [Chris] What if she just cartwheels out?
Hey, what is your name?
- [Joey] I'm Joey, by the way,
she probably has the coolest
parents in the world.
I wanted to ask--
- [Chris] Or, they're dead.
We don't know, we don't know.
(audience laughing)
Maybe she...
We don't know, we don't know.
- [Joey] My question was for Quentin.
As it was reported,
the original script for
this was leaked online,
and until I heard that you, by the way,
until I heard that you
were rewriting it totally,
then I read it and it was great.
My question was, did the fact that you
had already had a story for this
make it difficult to do a total rewrite?
And also, second question,
sorry about that.
Will we be seeing the Bride
again, perhaps in Volume 3?
- [Quentin] Yeah. So,
the thing about it was...
What pissed me off about
what happened with the leak
was the fact that normally,
I kind of finish a script
and once I'm done with it, I'm
ready to go into production.
But this was one I wanted
to go through three drafts.
I wanted to get there. I
didn't want to have to...
There's certain plot threads that were
in the first draft that I wasn't
quite ready to tie up yet,
but I knew I had a couple of
drafts to go, so that's why
I was a little disconcerted
when it got out there.
Having said that though,
my process was my process.
So even though I yelled
and screamed about it,
I kinda kept on doing
what I planned to do.
So, it, you know, the second draft,
and the third draft is
what I ended up shooting,
and was where I was going anyway with it.
So that just went on the way it would.
It just got more public
than I wanted it to get.
And we'll see. Never say never.
We'll see, all right? You know, when it
comes to Kill Bill 3, Uma
would really like to do it.
We talk about it every
once in a while or so.
(audience cheering)
We've gotta wait for Vernita's daughter
to get old enough to go
and kill her, all right?
So, we'll see.
- [Chris] I have a question, just as we're
weaving this in for Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Is there anything that you could tell us
about the essence of
who your character is?
Because, obviously, we got some glimpses.
Without giving too much
away, what can you say?
- [Jennifer] Well, she's being taken
to be hanged by this man,
and she's doing everything
she can to survive.
She's a bit feral.
(panel laughing)
Crazy like a fox, I would
say. She's pretty smart.
- [Chris] Excellent, and I was
very excited to see, Walton Goggins and I
were in "House of 1,000 Corpses" together,
and you are in a Quentin
Tarantino movie now,
and I'm very excited and proud for you.
- [Walton] Say it again.
- [Chris] I said, I'm just
excited that just seeing
where we all started
out, and you're way huge.
I mean, what was it like for you coming
on to the set with all
this pantheon of actors?
- I mean, yeah, look around.
You know, really, it was extraordinary.
There's one scene in
particular, I mean, I can't
really go into too much,
but there was an opportunity
to interface with almost everyone up here,
and it was at one point
during the rehearsal period
with Quentin, I just stopped,
and you're just filled
with this emotion,
because it's like you hope
that you can hang on long enough
to put yourself in a situation
where a filmmaker like
Quentin gives you a shot,
and then you look around
at all of this talent.
I mean, I remember where I was
when I first saw every
single actor up here,
and it's just, it's been
an extraordinary run.
It's really a special, special experience.
- [Chris] You're a very
special boy, Walton Goggins.
- [Walton] Oh, I'm a special boy.
- [Chris] You're a very special boy.
What is your name, sir?
- [Sam] Hi, my name's Sam.
My question's for Quentin Tarantino.
I was just wondering, since you
just made "Django Unchained"
and you're making "Hateful Eight,"
are you a Western director now?
Can we expect more Westerns in the future?
- [Quentin] Yeah, I actually...
I actually feel that when
it comes to Westerns,
maybe not in the old days when people
made 20 Westerns, or 25 Westerns,
as well as doing other things,
but I think, at least nowadays,
you have to make at least three Westerns
to call yourself a Western director,
and anything else, you're
just dabbling in the genre.
And so...
I will eventually make three Westerns,
so I can officially call
myself a Western director,
(audience cheering) and throw
my Westerns on the table
with all the other Western directors,
and then, we'll just see how they stand.
- [Chris] Excellent. Good question.
I'd love to hear from Demián too.
Just anything about your
experience on the film,
and just the elements of it, and it just
seemed very claustrophobic in parts of it.
So, what was it like for you?
- [Demián] Well, yeah. It was all that.
You know, when you become an
actor, this is what you want.
You wanna work with the best
directors and fantastic cast,
and so for me, I mean, I've been a big fan
of all these guys for many years,
and I can only say that I had
the best seat in the house
watching all these guys in
action, and that was my gift.
- [Quentin] You know, I
just wanna say one thing
about Demián that was really
interesting, because, when I...
In the very first draft of the script,
Bob was a Frenchman, all right?
And then, I decided in the second draft
to change him to a Mexican.
And then, but I couldn't
think of anybody immediately,
nobody came to my mind
immediately to play the character,
and so actually I called up
my buddy Robert Rodriguez,
and I go, "Okay, so like, I'm writing
"this Mexican character and everything.
"Who would you recommend from the
"different Mexican actors that you know?
"Would you recommend
somebody in particular?"
He hadn't read the script or anything,
and he goes, "Oh, Quentin!
"Demián Bichir. Demián
Bichir, that's who it is.
"We did Machete Kills together."
And you were fantastic in Machete Kills.
He goes, "We did Machete Kills together,
"and through the whole movie,
"I kept saying, you're a Quentin actor.
"Quentin has got to work with you.
"You are a Quentin actor, all right?
And so he just said, "It's Demián.
"Just don't talk about it. Just hire him."
- [Chris] Excellent.
- [Quentin] I love you, Robert!
(audience laughing)
- [Chris] Hey, what is your name?
- [Jose] Hi, my name is Jose.
Quentin, if you could just answer
my question, because I'm also Mexican.
[speaks Spanish]
(audience cheering)
My question is, so yeah,
why do you cast Demián?
I mean, you can also cast, you said
a French, and also German.
Why you didn't cast Christoph Waltz?
He's your favorite, I think. (laughter)
What do you like about Demián?
- [Quentin] Oh well, the thing about,
well the thing about it
was, well, Demián's just
an amazing actor, and
actually, to tell you the truth
it's like, of all the
characters, if you look at
what's on the page, and then you see
what Demián delivered with it, it's like,
"How the fuck did he get there from here?"
(laughter)
I mean, what's on the page doesn't
really reflect what he ended up doing.
Am I wrong about that?
- No.
- It doesn't reflect it at all!
All right? He's like,
"The page? Fuck the page!"
He just moved on!
Did his own thing and we're
all the better for it.
- You're talking about
a true chameleon here.
We worked together for four
months. All of us, right?
When we got on the plane from Los Angeles
to come down here, none of us
recognized Demián. (laughter)
We didn't know who he was!
- [Quentin] I thought it
was Jennifer's security!
- Nobody knew who he was.
- [Chris] Tim Roth, was it
the same experience for you,
in sort of developing this guy?
Like, how did you arrive at
this particular character?
- I just did what he told me to do.
Which is pretty much what you have to do.
I mean, there are very
few directors where,
writer-directors, where
you read it and it's done.
It's very, very clear
from what's on the page
what you need to do and there isn't
really any improvisation necessary.
It's an incredible experience.
So I just...
The main concern really was,
"Am I doing too much here?
"Is it too over-the-top?" and kind of,
"No, no, give me more!"
- [Quentin] Yeah, Tim's
performance is a little bit a
gallery of great British
character actors from the past.
"Hey, give me a little
Terry-Thomas on this one."
[laughter]
- Very much so. "Yes. Quite right."
- [Chris] So when you and Michael Madsen
and you guys get together, does it feel,
does it feel new, or does it feel like,
"Oh, this is where, we just left off here,
"we just picked up where
we left off before"?
- I think we picked up where we left off,
but I think it went one step farther.
I think we are even better.
We're smarter, a little bit older,
but still under control of the
best director on the planet.
[audience cheering]
- [Chris] Hello sir, what is your name?
- [Drew] My name is Drew.
- [Chris] And what's your question, Drew?
- [Drew] First off, I love you.
- [Quentin] Thank you, Drew.
- [Chris] Oh, that was for him, funny.
- [Drew] I just wanted to ask,
recently in an interview you said that
you probably or you most likely
could stop after 10 films,
and I wanted to know how much validity
there was to that, and if so, why?
- [Quentin] Well you know, we'll
see what ends up happening.
I mean, that was more...
That wasn't so much a
mission statement, more than
me trying to have a serious discussion
of an artist's vitality
in public, in a world
where that's not really a
good thing to do, right?
You know, in a world before there was
all broken down into like 133 articles
where the paragraphs are
taken out of context.
All right?
But there is an aspect of, I do kind of
like the idea of "10 and done."
There is kind of a neat thing about that.
I do like that, we'll see what happens.
But you have to keep in mind though,
if I go by my normal route
of the last 20 years,
I usually make about
three movies a decade.
So this is like number
two for this decade.
So even if I were to end
it at 10, that's still
like another decade and a little
bit more to finish that up.
However, if things change as far as like,
if I can't shoot on
film, if I can't release
to some degree or another on film,
I don't know if I'll even make 10.
However, we'll see what
happens, all right?
And I might just say, "To hell with that,"
and make 15, who knows?
But I do like the idea of getting out,
leaving you wanting a little bit more.
I like the idea of getting
out while it's still good.
I don't want to be out of touch,
and you know, if everything changes,
well then I guess I am out of touch
and it's time for me to step aside
and let other people take the rope.
On the other hand,
though, part of the thing
I don't like about digital
projection and all that,
to me it's just HBO in public.
You're just watching television in public.
So if that becomes what movies become,
then I can move to television, all right?
You know, then I'll
cut out the middle man.
[audience cheering]
And then, it's like, so
maybe there's 10 movies
and maybe I have three
mini-series in my future.
[audience cheering] And then
I can just write my stories
and they're as long as they are
and I just shoot it all and they're these
little novels for television,
and that's all good.
- [Chris] Yeah.
- [Quentin] You know?
[audience cheering]
- Sounds good.
- [Chris] People seem happy with that.
- [Quentin] I mean, my scripts are
always too long to get in the...
Like, except for "Kill
Bill" all of my scripts
get cut down anyway, so
if I could actually just
write a story and it ends up
being 8 hours and all good,
all good!
[Chris] Where it just goes on forever.
In five years you'll have
to shoot it on Snapchat,
like there won't even be, you won't
even be able to do movies anymore,
all we get is an emoji movie.
What is your name, sir?
- [Martin] Hey, how are you doing?
- [Chris] Hey.
- [Martin] I'm Martin.
How's it going?
- [Quentin] Hey, Martin.
- [Martin] This is kind of a
daunting panel of coolness,
so it's, I'm having a little trouble here.
So I'll direct this to Kurt Russell.
You've played some fairly
recognizable characters
over the years, Snake, Wyatt Earp, Jack,
you know, people that may be recognized.
How did you pull those
particular characters in
to give some spirit to the character
that you play in this
move that's coming up?
- You're actually very insightful
into how I go about my work. [laughter]
I think one of the fun things
you can do as an actor,
and I kind of figured that out when I was,
for me anyway, when I was 27 years old,
had the opportunity to play Elvis Presley.
Nobody else really wanted to do it,
and I figured, "Well, fuck it,
"if I'm gonna do this I'll go
down in flames." [laughter]
"It's a good one to go down with."
And it didn't turn out that way,
and for the first time
I got to do something
really the way I wanted to do it,
and I got to do it with a
man named John Carpenter,
who we then went on to do four movies.
(audience cheering)
And he gave me the
opportunity to do things,
you know, kind of the way we both saw them
and the way I wanted to do them,
and I always wanted to try to have
the chance to create people that,
were to me, hopefully something
that people could watch and go,
"That's a little different.
Guy's a little different than...
"I know somebody kind of like that."
So I have this tendency to take people
from my real life, or people from
the movie business, take
little pieces of them.
There are six very specific
people who are John Ruth.
They are, they were my,
my guiding way to find John Ruth,
and it all comes from what he wrote
and discussions with Quentin.
This one was an interesting one.
I didn't get this right away, I didn't,
yeah I was struggling a little bit,
and Quentin was helping me
kind of try to find a way.
Whatever it is is what it's gonna be,
but that's a really
insightful question for me,
thank you very much.
- [Chris] Oh, well done!
Mr. Bruce Dern, [audience cheering]
I'd love to hear from you for a sec.
Bruce, how do you fit in to all this?
How do you fit into the
story? Who is this guy?
Bueller?
- I fit into the story,
I think, because the kid
grew up watching me be
a jerk on television.
[laughter]
And there's a couple of things I'll say,
even though it's not directly
an answer to your question.
The excitement for all of
us, was just to be asked
by this man to be in his
movie, that's number one.
Number two, he has, Quentin,
has the greatest attention to detail,
on a set, making a scene, as
any director who ever lived.
If he had a rival, it would
only be Luchino Visconti.
Secondly, he creates an atmosphere,
for all of us,
not to do our greatest work
necessarily, but to get better,
and he does that for everybody on the set,
not just the actors, but everybody else,
and I was excited to come
to work every single day
with this man, because I thought
we just might have a chance to
do something that's never been done.
That's Quentin Tarantino.
- [Chris] That is a... [audience cheering]
That's a...
That's a climactic, beautiful...
We have time for one more question. No?
- [Quentin] Oh come on!
- [Chris] How could you do that to her?
- [Quentin] Come on!
- [Chris] Don't be evil!
Let this poor girl ask her question,
or I won't really be able to do
anything about it, otherwise, I guess.
(distant speech)
Turn your mic on.
(audience groaning)
What did you say there?
- [Quentin] Hold on,
we'll repeat that back.
- You can have my mic.
- [Chris] Her name is Natalie.
Stop, okay there you go, good.
No yeah, go, go, go.
We forced them into submission, go ahead.
- [Natalie] Okay, first
of all, I just want to say
Quentin, you're so awesome,
my entire family loves you.
- [Quentin] Oh thanks!
- [Natalie] And my question
is, what is your favorite thing
you've ever said or written in a movie?
- [Kurt] Oh, that's a good one.
- [Quentin] Oh wow, that
is a good one, actually.
- [Chris] Good last question!
- [Quentin] Yeah, good last question!
- [Chris] And you weren't gonna
let her do it, you monsters!
- [Quentin] Oh, gosh.
God, that's actually such a good question.
I don't really know if
I have an answer for it,
especially with this
"pressed for time" bullshit.
All right. (laughter)
You know, gosh darn.
You know I can't think, right
now, I can't think of anything
as far as a writer is
concerned, all right,
that I've written that was
like, my number one favorite...
No, I take that back.
All right. (laughter)
Yeah, my favorite thing I
think I've ever written is
the scene in the French farmhouse
at the beginning of
"Inglourious Basterds."
(audience cheering)
Before that, it was, in
my very first script,
"True Romance," it was
the whole Sicilian speech,
and I always knew that
that was the one to beat,
and then when I finally wrote that scene
in "Inglourious Basterds," like,
"Oh, I think I finally beat that one!"
- [Chris] Excellent. Well you guys--
- [Quentin] Hey, I wanna--
- [Chris] No please, go.
- [Quentin] I wanna make one announcement
to you guys that people don't know yet,
so I'm gonna announce it out here now,
is it wasn't for sure and we
just kind of settled it down.
You guys know that I normally don't use
an original score in my movies, I kind of
take scores from other
movies and put them in there.
In this one I kind of thought,
"Maybe this should have
an original score."
And so I'm here to announce that
the great Ennio Morricone...
- [Chris] Whoa! (audience cheering)
- [Quentin] Will not only be doing
an original score for "The Hateful Eight"
that he's writing right now, and will be
recording in Prague in
the next couple of weeks,
but that will be his first Western score
in 40 years!
- [Chris] Fantastic. (audience cheering)
"Hateful Eight" comes out December 25th
of this year, Christmas Day.
Please, a huge hand for Quentin Tarantino
and the cast of "Hateful Eight"!
(audience cheering)
- [Quentin] Thanks for coming, guys!
I really appreciate it!
See you at Christmas!
