'The Hateful Eight' Extended Version Has Come to Netflix as a Miniseries
Netflix doesn't just have "The Hateful Eight" now -- it also has Quentin Tarantino's extended version, which happens to be a four-episode miniseries.
The streamer already had the theatrical cut of the 2015 film, but the miniseries edition arrived Thursday, as IndieWire reports. It's broken into four episodes ranging between 50 and 56 minutes long, for a total of 210 minutes. Meanwhile, the theatrical cut sits at 168 minutes long.
"The Hateful Eight" follows a bounty hunter (Kurt Russell) and his captive (Jennifer Jason Leigh) as they end up stuck in a blizzard with another bounty hunter (Samuel L. Jackson) and various shady characters. It won an Academy Award for Best Original Score, and was nominated for Best Cinematography. Leigh earned nod for Best Supporting Actress.
Tarantino originally divided "The Hateful Eight" into six chapters for its theatrical version. Three of the extended version's four episodes use titles from those chapters: "Last Stage to Red Rock," "Minnie's Haberdashery," and "Domergue's Got a Secret." The final one is simply called "The Last Chapter." While the first and final miniseries episodes both comprise of two chapters each from the film, the third and fourth contain just one each, per IndieWire.
It's an interesting new way to watch the film, and we expect Tarantino fans to feel anything but hateful toward it.
[via: IndieWire]