The Quentin Tarantino-corralled panel for his upcoming Western The Hateful Eight – read all about that here – came with the golden news nugget that composing great Ennio Morricone will be providing him with his first original score. It’ll be Morricone’s first Western score in four decades.
Morricone, of course, is a master of creating musical landscapes for the Old West, with his Sergio Leone scores for films like The Good, The Bad And The Ugly and Once Upon A Time In The West offering a library of ageless cues and themes. He heads to Prague to record in the next couple of weeks, revealed Tarantino. Time will tell if, like those Leone Westerns, he’ll be penning musical motifs for the movie’s eight rogues and n’er-do-wells.
It’ll be the fourth collaboration between the two. Any animus over Morricone’s criticism of the director’s use of music in Django Unchained is clearly a distant memory.
A memory that does live on is Kill Bill. Would, one Hall H audience member wondered, Tarantino consider returning to The Bride’s story for a Kill Bill 3. “Never say never”, came the answer. “Uma and I have talked about it. We both really want to do it. We just have to wait for Vernita’s daughter to get old enough to want to kill her.”
Tarantino also hinted that **The Hateful Eight **wouldn’t be his last trip to the frontier country. “These days you have to make at least three Westerns to call yourself a Western director,” he said, “otherwise you’re just dabbling in the genre. So I have to make one more Western to call myself a Western director.”
**The Hateful Eight **takes a bow on Christmas Day in the US with a UK release date still to be announced.