DIRECTOR Quentin Tarantino will saddle up Down Under next year with his new movie.
The two-time Oscar winner will host a premiere of his western, The Hateful Eight. It isthe director's second western in a row after 2012's Django Unchained took more than $450 million at the box office to become Tarantino's most successful release, winning him a Best Original Screenplay Oscar and a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Christoph Waltz. 
Tarantino (pictured), whose other movies include Pulp Fiction and Inglourious Basterds, nearly dropped plans for The Hateful Eight after the script, about a collection of Old West characters holed up at a stagecoach stopover during a blizzard, leaked in 2014.The old-school director said the movie, which stars Kurt Russell as a bounty hunter and Jennifer Jason Leigh as a fugitive, as well as perennial Tarantino favourites Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth, and Michael Madsen, was partly inspired by Bonanza.