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Quentin Tarantino confirms that he is working on the new draft of The Hateful Eight script that was leaked earlier this year, as he staged an all-star reading.

A screenplay featuring many N-words, forced oral sex, and an ending that supposedly will never be repeated; Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth, Bruce Dern, and others do a bad ass read of the leaked script at the Theatre at the Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, Saturday April 19th.

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Speaking to a “standing room only” crowd, Tarantino told the audience members — many of whom had paid up to $200 apiece for tickets, with revenues benefiting Film Independent, that this was the one and only time they would see it with the current ending, in which all of the movie’s major characters die.

“I’m working on a second draft and I will do a third draft but we’re reading from the first draft,” he told the crowd of 1,200. The movie was divided into five parts, or “chapters,” he said. Yet Chapter 5, he said, (which he titled “Black Night, White Hell”) would be removed or rewritten altogether.

Due to the script being leaked, the filmmaker was forced to shelve what was meant to be his next Western movie following the success of Dajango Unchained.

For the event, Tarantino read stage directions, as the actors read the almost 3-hour-plus screenplay.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the plot goes as follows:

“A Western set somewhere between eight and 12 years after the Civil War, which begins with Russell as a bounty hunter chained to his prey, Tamblyn, inside a stagecoach as they travel toward a destination where he will collect a $10,000 reward for her.

The stagecoach is stopped by an African-American Civil War veteran (Jackson), who mysteriously appears with a saddle but no horse; they are then joined by another mystery man who claims to be going into town as its new sheriff, before all eventually take refuge from a blizzard in a “haberdashery” where almost all of the remaining story unfolds — that is, four of the five chapters take place almost entirely within one room.

What follows is a combination of Western and Agatha Christie-style whodunit, as various men and women engage in conversation and shootings in the haberdashery — not least Dern, who plays a Civil War general whose son appears to have been killed by Jackson.”

No word on when filming begins, but it sounds like it will be another Quentin Tarantino box-office smash.

[EW,THR]