The casting report emerges after the 'Django Unchained' director was overheard discussing a 'ruthless gang leader' role with the 'Dangerous Method' actor.
- September 24, 2014
AceShowbiz -
Viggo Mortensen is reportedly in negotiations to join "The Hateful Eight". According to a scoop from New York Daily News, the "Dangerous Method" actor is courted by Quentin Tarantino to play the baddie in his next western movie.
An onlooker told the site that Tarantino was spotted at the Greenwich Hotel in Tribeca "boisterously" discussing a role with Mortensen. They had what looked like scripts in front of them, and the director was overheard enthusing to the Oscar-nominated actor about a "ruthless gang leader" role.
"The Hateful Eight" follows the steadily ratcheting tension that develops after a blizzard diverts a stagecoach from its route, and traps a pitiless and mistrustful group which includes a competing pair of bounty hunters, a renegade Confederate soldier and a female prisoner in a saloon in the middle of nowhere.
Kurt Russell and Samuel L. Jackson are expected to star in the movie. Jennifer Lawrence is also among the rumored cast.
