Hey, L.A., you get to see an unproduced Quentin Tarantino script acted out live on stage. Well, some of you, at least: on April 24th, Tarantino is staging a live reading of The Hateful Eight in what his people are billing as a one-time event that won’t be recorded or streamed, in an L.A. event supporting LACMA.

I haven’t read Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained follow up, the western The Hateful Eight. But some folks out there did a couple of months back without the writer-director’s say so, causing him to cancel the project altogether.

Here’s the official synopsis:

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.

Which was a damned shame, because the project would have potentially reunited him with his Inglourious Basterds and Django star Christoph Waltz and given the director a shot at working with veteran actor Bruce Dern.

But then, according to Tarantino, someone among the small circle of people he’d allowed to read the script leaked it. Ultimately, the script for The Hateful Eight ended up online, and a frustrated Tarantino canceled the project altogether.

The $200 tickets go on sale April 9th, and I’m sure even at that price they’re going to move. You can find out more info here.

[Source: Collider]