The Hateful Eight's Original Ending Explained (& Why Tarantino Changed It) - Screen Rant

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Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight has an ending full of blood and betrayal, as expected from any Tarantino movie, but this wasn’t the original ending – here’s what happened. Quentin Tarantino has explored different genres throughout his career, though he’s best known for his crime movies like Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, but he has also visited genres like martial arts (with both Kill Bill movies) and black comedy (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood). Tarantino has also shared his version of western with Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight, with the latter going through some problems before it began shooting.

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Set in 1870, The Hateful Eight follows eight strangers, all with different (and secret) motivations, who end up in a stagecoach lodge after seeking refuge from a blizzard. These characters are Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), John “The Hangman” Ruth (Kurt Russell), Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), Marco the Mexican (Demián Bichir), English Pete Hicox (Tim Roth), Grouch Douglass (Michael Madsen), and Sanford “Sandy” Smithers (Bruce Dern), all with strong personalities and different plans that prompted major conflict between them, resulting in a real blood fest inside the stagecoach lodge. The Hateful Eight is one of those cases where all the characters die, but that’s wasn’t the original plan for the ending.

In the third act of the movie, it’s revealed that Hicox (who was posing as a man named Oswaldo Mobray), Douglass (who introduced himself as Joe Gage), and Marco (who went by Señor Bob) were Daisy’s accomplices, who arrived at the lodge hours earlier with Daisy’s brother, Jody (Channing Tatum), to set everything up so they could rescue Daisy once she got there with Ruth. Douglass poisoned the coffee, killing Ruth and O.B (James Parks), with Warren killing Marco and then being shot by Jody from the basement while Mannix shot Mobray. Gage is later killed by Mannix and Warren, and after failing to make a deal with Mannix, Daisy is hung from the rafters in honor of Ruth, and so the severely wounded Mannix and Warren are left to die.

Walton Goggins and Samuel L Jackson in The Hateful Eight

The Hateful Eight almost didn’t happen as the full script was leaked online in January 2014, so Tarantino decided not to move forward and considered publishing it as a novel instead. He eventually directed a live reading of the leaked script a few months later and wrote a new one that became the movie everyone now knows. Of course, among the things that changed was the ending, in which Warren was shot multiple times by Jody from underneath the floorboards until he fell to the floor, immobilized. Daisy, now free, finished him off by shooting him three times between the eyes. Ultimately, Mannix was the only character left alive (but wounded), instead of him and Warren sharing their final moments together as Daisy hung from the rafters.

The original ending of The Hateful Eight was a lot more violent and bloody, with every character, including Daisy, getting to kill someone, but the final product was much better. By having each kill happen at its own time instead of in a big shootout, Tarantino built more tension between the characters and allowed Daisy to explain a bit more about her gang and try to manipulate Mannix into killing Warren.

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Adrienne Tyler is a features writer for Screen Rant. She is an Audiovisual Communication graduate that wanted to be a filmmaker, but life had other plans (and it turned out great). Prior to Screen Rant, she wrote for Pop Wrapped, 4 Your Excitement (4YE), and D20Crit, where she was also a regular guest at Netfreaks podcast. She was also a contributor for FanSided's BamSmackPow and 1428 Elm. Adrienne is very into films and she enjoys a bit of everything: from superhero films, to heartbreaking dramas, to low-budget horror films. Every time she manages to commit to a TV show without getting bored, an angel gets its wings.

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