re: Channing Tatum to play "a major role" in Tarantino's 'The Hateful Eight'

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Tatum, who is also in line to play the superhero Gambit in a standalone film for X-Men studio

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would star alongside Samuel L Jackson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, Kurt Russell and Tim Roth in the film, which has been likened to a tense stage play. Said to resemble the director’s early films Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction in style and tone, the story is about a pair of bounty hunters transporting prisoners through 19th-century Wyoming. Further characters include a renegade Confederate soldier and a female prisoner in a saloon.

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