Kurt Russell and Amber Tamblyn joined the cast of "The Hateful Eight." Tarantinio had to cancel plans to start shooting The Hateful Eight in January after the project was famously leaked and almost aborted. 

Amber Tamblyn made a cameo appearance in Quentin Tarantino's 2012 award-winning movie "Django Unchained."

Russell leaked this week that Quentin Tarantino's film "The Hateful Eight," is slated for released sometime in 2015.


Tarantino almost dropped "Hateful Eight" after it was leaked on Gawker. Tarantino sued Gawker, dropped the lawsuit and then refiled the suit early in May.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Tarantino dismissed the lawsuit voluntarily, but could refile it at a later date. The dismissal motion allegedly says he "may later advance an action and refile a complaint after further investigations to ascertain and plead the identities of additional infringers resulting from Gawker Media's contributory copyright infringement, by its promotion, aiding and abetting and materially contributing to the dissemination to third-parties of unauthorized copies of plaintiff's copyrighted work."

At the time, Tarantino said "I'm very, very depressed. 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. ... 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 fucking 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." 

Kurt Russell was one of the actors who took part in a script reading of "The Hateful Eight" in April. The script was leaked and caused a lot of heartbreak for Tarantino. While talking about his role in My Fox Philly, Russell leaked that "The Hateful Eight" is set to start production early next year.

"I've got a couple of projects [coming up] ... there's a Tarantino project called 'Hateful Eight' that looks like it may go somewhere around the beginning of the year," Russell said.