In a previous blogpost we outlined how we think The Hateful Eight should arrive on home video. Obviously, at least for the initial release, and considering the relatively poor showing of Tarantino’s movies on home video in general, that’s not what we’ll get for now. Still, The Hateful Eight is an amazing movie and belongs in everyone’s shelf. The upcoming releases boast a very small set of extras and the movie in best possible BluRay quality. Whether it will ever see a re-release along the lines of what we imagine, we will never now. Get your pre-orders in and plan the movie nights. Before some people ask and comment: none of these releases is the roadshow version, and won’t be. Plus, despite the movie’s global release is not being handled by one single major distribution company, the similarities between these discs might still be very high, but they are not identical, as they might be for example all over Europe had Warner Brothers secured the European rights, etc. It is safe to assume that they are all relatively light on extras.
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