Watch Quentin Tarantinos Brooding Hateful Eight Trailer

Quentin Tarantinos first teaser trailer for his upcoming WesternThe Hateful Eightbrings wintry dread, dark laughs and plenty of cabin fever. The acclaimed directors eighth film isset, per the films YouTube description, six or eight or 12years after the Civil War and follows bounty hunter John the Hangman Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his fugitive Daisy (Jennifer Jason Leigh) as a brutal Wyoming storm forces their stagecoach to touch down atMinnies Haberdashery en route to Red Rock.

The duo isjoined by two strangers: union-soldier-turned-bounty-hunterMajor Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson) and Chris Mannix, a Southern renegade who claims to be the towns new sheriff (Walton Goggins). The group take refuge among four fellow dwellers: Minnies temporary caretaker Bob (Demin Bichir), Red Rock hangmanOswaldo (Tim Roth), cow-puncher Joe (Michael Madsen) and Confederate General Sanford Smithers (Bruce Dern).

One of them fellas is not what he says he is, says the Hangman. And the clip adds to the mysterious vibe, showcasing typical Tarantino fireworks: gunfire, punchyline delivery and widescreen visual splendor. The Hateful Eightis out in 70mm format on December 25th before its wider release on January 8th, 2016.Composer Ennio Morricone best known for his work on iconic Westerns like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly will score the film.

Tarantino first announced Hateful Eight in November 2013 but canceled the release following a heavily publicizedscript leakin January 2014. The director considered adapting the screenplay into a novel, then held a script reading with the full cast at Los Angeles United Artists Theater.Tarantino eventually changed course, starting filming in January of this year in Telluride, Colorado.