<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $44--54 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $155.8 million </Td> </Tr> <P> The Hateful Eight (often marketed as The H8ful Eight) is a 2015 American Western film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino . It stars Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Demián Bichir, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, and Bruce Dern as eight strangers who seek refuge from a blizzard in a stagecoach stopover some time after the American Civil War . </P> <P> Tarantino announced The Hateful Eight in November 2013 . He conceived it as a novel and sequel to his previous film Django Unchained (2012) before deciding to make it a standalone film . After the script leaked in January 2014, he cancelled the film, directed a live reading at the United Artists Theater in Los Angeles, then announced that he had changed his mind . Filming began on December 8, 2014, near Telluride, Colorado . The original score was Ennio Morricone's first for a Tarantino film, his first complete Western score in 34 years, and his first for a high - profile Hollywood production since Brian De Palma's Mission to Mars in 2000 . </P>

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