Well, I think we all saw this coming. Last month, Quentin Tarantino held a special one-night only live read of his script for The Hateful Eight with a star-studded cast at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles. It served as a tantalizing preview of what might have been, if only he hadn’t shelved the project earlier in the year when the script leaked online. At the live read, he revealed that he was still in the process of rewriting the screenplay, which seemed to indicate that the movie might happen after all. Now this week we are hearing that he is indeed moving forward with the project and that the movie will shoot later this year. The moral of the story? Don’t believe everything that comes out of Quentin Tarantino’s mouth.

According to Showbiz 411, Quentin Tarantino is planning to start production on The Hateful Eight sometime in November of this year. The movie will be shot mostly in Wyoming, which is where he filmed much of Django Unchained as well. As far as we know, the cast for the live read will also be the cast of the movie, although sadly it sounds like Christoph Waltz will not be appearing even though Tarantino wrote a part specifically for him.

On a related note, Tarantino was recently at Cannes to present a 20th Anniversary screening of Pulp Fiction (among other things), where he hinted that we might eventually see an extended cut of Django Unchained. He revealed that he has approximately 90 minutes of unused footage from the film and that he would like to re-edit it as a 4-part TV mini-series. While that’s certainly an intriguing thought, something tells me this will be just another pipe dream, not unlike Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair. What do you think, would you like to see even more of Django Unchained? Are you psyched for The Hateful Eight?