The script for Quentin Tarantino’s next film was leaked, prompting the “Pulp Fiction” director to scrap the project and hunt down who did it.
The Oscar-winning filmmaker sent a draft of the yet-to-be-cast western movie, “The Hateful Eight,” to a small group of actors he had worked with in the past, he told Deadline.com.
“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,” he said on Tuesday.
“I’m very, very depressed.”
Tarantino learned about the leak after his representative, Mike Simpson, told him unknown agents had been calling to pitch actors for roles in the film.
He had handed over the script to “Django Unchained” producer Reggie Hudlin, and actors including Tim Roth, Bruce Dern and Michael Madsen, Tarantino said.
“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,” Tarantino said.
He said he feels betrayed and now plans to publish the script scrap the movie, at least 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’m done. I’ll move on to the next thing. I’ve got 10 more [ideas] where that came from.”
The agency CAA, which represents Dern, may be responsible, Tarantino said.