I didn’t give Tarantino enough credit. I’ll admit that right here and now. The man had spoken so ill of the streaming experience in the past and he seemed to really put the theatrical experience on such a pedestal that I thought he’d be above shifting around his own movies for streaming services such as Netflix. It turns out I was wrong. Dead wrong. When Hateful Eight popped up on Netflix in its “Extended Cut” format, not only did I misreport that it had the same footage as the 70mm roadshow version, but I speculated that Tarantino had nothing to do with it and would likely be displeased with his movie being turned into a “fake series.” Not only did Tarantino have a hand in Hateful Eight‘s extended version showing up on Netflix, but the mini-series format was his idea.
Speaking with /Film, Tarantino discussed how he came up with the idea of splitting up his three-hour feature into fifty-minute increments:
“So Netflix came to us and said, ‘Hey, look, if you’d be interested–if there’s even more footage [than the 70mm roadshow version], [and] if you’d be interested in putting it together in a way that we could show it as three or four episodes, depending on how much extra footage you have, we’d be willing to do that.’
And I thought, wow, that’s really intriguing. I mean, the movie exists as a movie, but if I were to use all the footage we shot, and see if I could put it together in episode form, I was game to give that a shot.
So about a year after it’s released, maybe a little less, me and my editor, Fred Raskin, we got together and then we worked real hard. We edited the film down into 50 minute bits, and we very easily got four episodes out of it. We didn’t re-edit the whole thing from scratch, but we did a whole lot of re-editing, and it plays differently. Some sequences are more similar than others compared to the film, but it has a different feeling. It has a different feeling that I actually really like a lot. And there was [already] a literary aspect to the film anyway, so it definitely has this ‘chapters unfolding’ quality.”
All right, well he sold me. No joke. As I write this, I’m watching the film play out, and in the first five minutes, I can already see some key differences even from the roadshow version from 2015. Tarantino went on in the interview to say there’s about 25 minutes or more, though it’s unclear if he means from the 70mm version of the standard version that was released at home.
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SOURCE: /Film
