After a long line of legal battles and leaked scripts, it seems that writer/director Quentin Tarantino's next film will finally be hitting the big screen and soon.

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While talking with Fox 59 in Philadelphia to promote his new documentary, The Battered Basterds of Baseball, Kurt Russell mentioned that his future would include working on The Hateful Eight with Tarantino.

"I've got a Tarantino project called The Hateful Eight that looks like it may go somewhere around the beginning of the year," Russell told Fox 59.

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With the delays taking place due to script leaks, it seems like Tarantino is delaying the film from the original fall shooting dates and plans to begin work on the film in early 2015 with a possible release date for later that year.

The script was originally read during a live table read in Los Angeles that included Samule L. Jackson, Russell, Walton Goggins, Amber Tamblyn, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern and Tim Roth.

The film follows the steadily ratcheting tension that develops after a blizzard diverts a stagecoach from its route, and traps a pitiless and mistrustful group in a saloon in the middle of nowhere. The stranded group included a competing pair of bounty hunters (Jackson and Russell), a renegade Confederate soldier (Walton Goggins) and a female prisoner (Amber Tamblyn).

Russell is next appearing in The Art of the Steal and next year's Fast and Furious 7. He also is featured with his father on the Netflix original documentary, The Battered Basterds of Baseball, which is now available on Netflix Instant.

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