
Director Quentin Tarantino has said that he has “no desire” to continue on with his new film The Hateful Eight, after the script for the western was leaked.
"I'm very, very depressed”, Tarantino told Deadline.
"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."
The director admits that he doesn’t know who exactly leaked the script, but said that his agent Mike Simpson received calls looking to cast their stars in the film.
"I gave it to one of the producers on Django Unchained, Reggie Hudlin, and he let an agent come to his house and read it," said Tarantino.
"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 ****ing agents work, but I’m not making this next.
The director said that he plans on publishing the script instead.
"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.”