Quentin Tarantino could cancel new movie 'Hateful Eight' after script leaks. 'Django Unchained' director 'depressed,' turning new screenplay into novel instead

Late last year, filmmaker Quentin Tarantino gushed about his Django Unchained follow-up project to The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, expressing his excitement for the new movie and script. But after the script allegedly leaked earlier this month, the director has decided to shelve the project and says he feels betrayed. In fact, this movie (rumored to be titled The Hateful Eight) might just end up becoming a novel with the possibility of a film adaptation after a number of years.

"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 Pulp Fiction director found out about the script leak when his agent Mike Simpson "began getting phone calls from agents looking to pitch their clients for roles in the ensemble Western."

Tarantino is also naming some names when it comes to whom he blames for the script leak.

"I gave it to one of the producers on Django Unchained, Reggie Hudlin, and he let an agent come to his house and read it," Tarantino explained. "That's a betrayal, but not crippling because the agent didn't end up with the script. There is an ugly maliciousness to the rest of it. I gave it to three actors: Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, Tim Roth. The one I know didn't do this is Tim Roth. One of the others let their agent read it, and that agent has now passed it on to everyone in Hollywood. I don't know how these f*cking agents work, but I'm not making this next. I'm going to publish it, and that's it for now. I give it out to six people, and if I can't trust them to that degree, then I have no desire to make it. I'll publish it. I'm done. I'll move on to the next thing. I've got 10 more where that came from."

You can read more on what Tarantino had to say about The Hateful Eight right HERE!