Quentin Tarantino Talks About Racial Tensions in 'The Hateful Eight' with 'New York Magazine'

We're five months away from the release of Quentin Tarantino's new movie, The Hateful Eight, and he sat down with Vulture to talk about it (among other things). Set in a post-Civil War world, his eighth movie tells the story of two bounty hunters (played by Kurt Russell and Samuel L. Jackson) and their counterparts who try to find shelter in a blizzard on their way to their respective destinations. (Obviously, things gets a little complicated.) In the interview, Tarantino talks about the themes of white supremacy and racial injustice in his movie, and how stoked he is that America seems to be finally paying attention to those issues in real life.

From Vulture (heads up, it's really long):

For me, one of the coolest things about this interview is how Tarantino admits he's not trying to make a hyper-relevant, contemporary, zeitgeist-y film (whether or not you believe him is another story), but how he's still really excited and hopeful about this moment in history anyway. And if his movie resonates with activists who are paying attention to black deaths in America and race, then that's pretty exciting, too.

The Hateful Eight premieres on Christmas Day, 2015.