Channing Tatum Photo Arrives from ‘The Hateful Eight’

Channing Tatum in The Hateful Eight
Channing Tatum in ‘The Hateful Eight.’

The Weinstein Company’s released numerous trailers, clips, and featurettes from The Hateful Eight, however Channing Tatum’s character has been curiously missing from all of the promotional material. If you’ve seen Quentin Tarantino’s new bloody Western, then you’ll understand why Tatum’s character has been hidden from the promotional material. But now with the film playing in expanded release, TWC’s released the first official photo of Channing Tatum from The Hateful Eight. It’s best to go into the film not knowing how Tatum’s character is connected to those played by Jennifer Jason Leigh, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth, Walton Goggins, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, or Demian Bichir, and thankfully the photo doesn’t give away any spoilers.

The Hateful Eight Plot:

In The Hateful Eight, set six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his fugitive Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), race towards the town of Red Rock where Ruth, known in these parts as “The Hangman,” will bring Domergue to justice. Along the road, they encounter two strangers: Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), a black former union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a southern renegade who claims to be the town’s new Sheriff.

Losing their lead on the blizzard, Ruth, Domergue, Warren and Mannix seek refuge at Minnie’s Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie’s, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. Bob (Demian Bichir), who’s taking care of Minnie’s while she’s visiting her mother, is holed up with Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth), the hangman of Red Rock, cow-puncher Joe Gage (Michael Madsen), and Confederate General Sanford Smithers (Bruce Dern). As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our eight travelers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock after all…