Quentin Tarantino announced to Deadline.com that his upcoming project for "The Hateful Eight" is on hold after the script was leaked. Tarantino told the site that he's furious and depressed that someone he trusted would betray him and pass the script "on to everyone in Hollywood."
"I'm very, very depressed," Tarantino said. "I finished a script, a first draft, and I didn't mean to shoot it until next winter, a year from now. I gave it to six people, and apparently it's gotten out today."
According to Deadline, the director knew someone had leaked it when agents started trying to pitch their clients for roles in the film. Tarantino said he gave the script to three actors - Bruce Dern, Tim Roth and Michael Madsen - as well as their reps. He also let Reggie Hudlin, a producer on "Django Unchained" read it.
Tarantino told Deadline that he knows Hudlin let his agent come to his house and read it but he doesn't believe that's how the actual script began circulating.
"That's a betrayal, but not crippling because the agent didn't end up with the script," Tarantino said. "There is an ugly maliciousness to the rest of it."
He believes one of the actors he let read it passed the script on to their agent who then circulated it to everyone else. Tarantino told the site that he does not think Roth had anything to do with the script being leaked. He's pointing fingers at Madsen and Dern.
"One of the others let their agents read it, and that agent has now passed it on to everyone in Hollywood," he said. "I don't know how these f**king agents work, but I'm not making this next. I'm going to publish it, and that's it for now. I give it to out to six people, and if I can't trust them to that degree, then I have no desire to make it."
Even though Tarantino has decided to publish the script as a book for the time being, he did say there is a possibility that he could change his mind in the future and turn the western into a movie.
