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Here's Your First Look at Quentin Tarantino's 'Hateful Eight'

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Get ready for some pulp friction: Entertainment Weekly has unveiled the first look at three of the gunslingers in Quentin Tarantino’s forthcoming western, The Hateful Eight.

After a very public drama that included a leaked screenplay, a lawsuit, and a public script reading, the film went into production last November. It was still shooting in April, when Entertainment Weekly visited the set and snapped the cover photo, which features Samuel L. Jackson (as Major Marquis Warren), Jennifer Jason Leigh (Daisy Domergue) and Kurt Russell (John Ruth) all warmly dressed — and packing heat.

In the film, due out in November, these three desperados are forced to stay together in a bar during a snowstorm, where they’re joined by even more shady characters, played by Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Walton Goggins, Demián Bichir and Bruce Dern. The film’s set-up — a bunch of shifty criminals stuck in a room together — harkens back to Tarantino’s first feature, Reservoir Dogs. But the similarity between his first and tenth features “wasn’t a marching order when I sat down to write the script,” he said, “but pretty quickly I realized this is kind of a nice coming-full-circle.”

And just like in Reservoir Dogs, the distrust is certain to devolve into a whole lot of close-range violence.

The Hateful Eight hits theaters in November. For more, click over to EW.