Quentin Tarantino Confirms HATEFUL EIGHT Stage Play: 'I've Thought It Out Completely'

Famed director Quentin Tarantino continues to confirm that he will adapt his hit film THE HATEFUL EIGHT to the stage in the near future.

In an interview following Sunday's Golden Globe Awards, the helmer shared with The Wrap's editor-in-chief Sharon Waxman, "I've thought it out completely. I'm just waiting for this [awards] season to be over so I can write it." He added, "I gotta put myself there and write it for this." The filmmaker also confirmed reports that he would direct the stage version as well.

In addition, he revealed that FINDING NEVERLAND producer Harvey Weinstein attempted to convince him to make the Western into a play initially. "Harvey actually - he tried to talk me into doing it as a play first," Tarantino explained from Los Angeles. "He said, 'Let's just say this out loud before we commit to doing the movie.' And I was like, 'Look, I could. But I like the mystery aspect and the mystery aspect will really only work in the movie. And I have the 70mm and I have the snow. So let me do that.'"

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THE HATEFUL EIGHT hit theaters on on January 8th, 2016. The film is set six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, when a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth(Russell) and his fugitive Daisy Domergue (Leigh), race towards the town of Red Rock where Ruth, known in these parts as "The Hangman," will bring Domergue to justice. Along the road, they encounter two strangers: Major Marquis Warren (Jackson), a black former union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix (Goggins), a southern renegade who claims to be the town's new Sheriff.

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