Director Quentin Tarantino reveals that "The Hateful Eight" was originally written to be a sequel to "Django: Unchained."

In an interview with DP/30, Tarantino discusses how he initially set out to pen a "Django" novel, which eventually evolved into "The Hateful Eight."

"I hadn't written a novel before, I thought I would just try my hand at writing this Django paperback. At the time it was called Django in White Hell," Tarantino explained. "And it was basically just, you know - so I started writing - and it was basically just the stagecoach stuff, you know, all the stuff that we have in the story of the stagecoach, instead of Major Warren it was Django."

"And I was working on that and I hadn't got to Minnie's Haberdashery yet, hadn't figured out who the other people would be there, just kind of, just setting this mystery into place."

According to Screen Rant, Tarantino scratched the novel and turned it into "The Hateful Eight" because he was aiming to introduce characters that "were all equally questionable in terms of moral compass," whereas Django has already been introduced as a good guy.

Meanwhile, "The Hateful Eight's" previously announced release date for the 3mm and digital screenings have been rescheduled to debut one week earlier, but won't affect the scheduled 70mm roadshow that will screen in 100 theaters across the U.S. beginning Christmas Day.

The nationwide digital screening will now happen in Jan. 1, 2016.

The cast includes Michael Madsen, Samuel L. Jackson, Demian Bichir, Kurt Russell, Walton Goggins, Channing Tatum, Bruce Dern and Jennifer Jason Leigh.

"The Hateful Eight" is set in a wintry Wyoming landscape about a decade after the Civil War. Eight strangers cross each others paths and are forced to stay at Minnie's Haberdashery during a blizzard where they learn that they share a "deadly connection."