Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight Teaser

This week will see the debut of The Hateful Eight teaser. The first vid ad for Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming western will be revealed ahead of the theatrical release of his dear old Grindhouse buddy Robert Rodriguez’s new movie, Sin City: A Dame To Kill For. But you don’t have to see the sequel to Sin City to get a taste of this teaser.

Collider reports a run-down of the trailer. As the film won’t go into production until 2015, there’s no footage to speak of. Instead, The Hateful Eight opens on snow-covered dunes while a “western-style ballad” plays over title cards that tell of strangers being forced together after being stranded in a blizzard. “They soon discovered they shared a deadly connection” reads the titles before blood splatters across them.

The music picks up as a new title card emerges: “The New Film by Quentin Tarantino.” Then comes a list of the characters. We’ll reveal them below along with pictures of the performers who played them at The Hateful Eight Live Read last May.

The folks over at Collider have reported that Tarantino really wants Jennifer Lawrence to star in ‘The Hateful Eight’ because who doesn’t want Jennifer Lawrence in their movie right now? Lawrence is a smart actress who chooses smart roles, and this could be the smartest move of all if she takes it.

The role Lawrence is being sought for is presumably that of Daisy Domergue, aka “The Prisoner” introduced in the teaser, though we know that the live read version of the script had two female roles: Daisy and Six Horse Judy, who — as Collider notes — were played in that reading by ‘Django Unchained’ stars Amber Tamblyn and Zoe Bell, respectively. But as Tarantino has since done further work on the script, it’s possible that Six Horse Judy has since hit the trail.

So far, the rumored cast for the film has included the likes of Bruce Dern, Kurt Russell, Walton Goggins, Michael Madsen, and Samuel L. Jackson — but given that Tarantino has scrapped the project and started over, some of those names may have changed.

As for Lawrence, she still may have some additional shooting to do on the second part of ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay’ next year, and she’s attached to David O. Russell’s ‘Joy,’ the story of the woman who invented the Miracle Mop — that film is set to be released in December 2015. If she joins up with ‘The Hateful Eight,’ that’s going to give her a rather hectic shooting schedule, but we believe if anyone can pull it off, it’s J Law.