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Quentin Tarantino may join TV world after releasing "The Hateful Eight". The director mulls over the idea of adapting his next western project, which will be based on Elmore Leonard's book "Forty Lashes Less One", for the small screen.

"I own the rights to this book [I've] wanted to adapt for a while, and the time may have come for me to tackle [it]," he told Premiere magazine, "which could be my third western." He added that he considered taking it to TV in the form of "a miniseries of four or six hours."

According to Amazon, the book's synopsis reads, "The hell called Yuma Prison can destroy the soul of any man. And it's worse for those whose damning crime is the color of their skin. The law says Chiricahua Apache Raymond San Carlos and black-as-night former soldier Harold Jackson are murderers, and they'll stay behind bars until they're dead and rotting. But even in the worst place on Earth, there's hope. And for two hard and hated inmates - first enemies, then allies by necessity - it waits at the end of a mad and violent contest ... on a bloody trail that winds toward Arizona's five most dangerous men."