Russell gives Hateful Eight update

Kurt Russell has confirmed critical details about Quentin Tarantino’s project, Hateful Eight.

The director’s screenplay was leaked online earlier this year and he filed a lawsuit against Gawker Media, accusing the company’s website Defamer of “fabricating” a news story to disseminate a draft of his script.

Quentin rewrote the screenplay, but speculation was rife the film was subject to a huge delay. Kurt reveals he has a part in Hateful Eight and that the movie will be moving forward in 2015.

“I've got a Tarantino project called The Hateful Eight that looks like it may go somewhere around the beginning of the year,” the actor revealed during an interview with Philadelphia Fox News affiliate station, Fox 59.

Quentin’s lawsuit against Gawker Media was unsuccessful, as a California federal court judge ruled no copyright infringement took place.

Kurt has worked with the filmmaker before in 2007 film Death Proof, which received widespread critical acclaim.

The action-packed thriller centres on Kurt’s character Stuntman Mike, a homicidal stuntman who uses his technologically enhanced automobile to murder women.

The actor previously spoke about the creative freedom he shared while working with Quentin.

“I kind of settled in on the idea that Stuntman Mike is a crazy psycho who isn’t one thing. I said [to Quentin], ‘Why don’t we do something different here at the end. Instead of just playing it out, why don’t we really go with this word you wrote here, coward,” Kurt recalled to CraveOnline previously.

“[Quentin] said, ‘What do you mean'’ I said, ‘I mean, really go for it.’ He said, ‘That could be fun.’ So we went there and went all the way down the road. So it was fun to realise something about that character that’s true about all people. There isn’t just one way a person behaves. I had never seen those characters played out those ways.”