Shots Fired: Tarantino's Full 'Hateful Eight' Trailer Comes Out Guns Ablaze

Quentin Tarantino the activist may have spent the last few weeks squabbling with police departments around the nation, but Quentin Tarantino the filmmaker has come out guns ablaze with the full trailer for The Hateful Eight.

The Oscar-winner’s eighth full feature returns to the old west, the setting of his 2012 hit Django Unchained, and its plot — about a group of shifty strangers trapped in a room — shares story DNA with his directorial debut, Reservoir Dogs. But much of the plot has been largely left a mystery, as Tarantino spent much of this year’s Hateful Eight Comic-Con presentation talking about how he shot on old 65mm film. But in this trailer, we finally get a clearer picture of what might go down between the outlaws, whose identities are also revealed in this newest promo.

They aren’t named — and who knows if they will be in the film — but their code names are catchy: There’s the Bounty Hunter (Samuel L. Jackson), The Hangman (Kurt Russell), The Confederate (Bruce Dern), The Sheriff (Walton Goggins), The Mexican (Demian Bichir), The Little Man (Tim Roth), The Cow Puncher (Michael Madsen), and The Prisoner (Jennifer Jason Leigh).

From the trailer, it appears that all the distrust and eventual shootouts stem from the fact that The Hangman is taking The Prisoner so she can be be executed — and so he can claim the $10,000 reward attached to her head. As it turns out, there’s a lot of interest amongst the other people at the cottage in claiming that money for themselves.

The Hateful Eight will launch in select theaters on Christmas Day, and expand on January 8.