Samuel L. Jackson thinks Quentin Tarantino is a film-making "purist".
The 52-year-old director – whose previous works include ‘Reservoir Dogs’, ‘Pulp Fiction’ and ‘Django Unchained’ – has shot the eagerly-awaited Western movie using 70 mm film, which is more expensive but offers a higher resolution shot than the standard approach.
Jackson – who’s been cast in ‘The Hateful Eight’, having previously appeared in a number of Tarantino-directed movies – told ITV’s ‘This Morning’: "It’s a big Christmas release in America.
"Quentin likes to shoot on film – he’s a purist – he likes to shoot in 70mm. They went in and discovered these lenses that they shot ‘Ben Hur’ and all of these other great, great films."
Last month, the award-winning director offered an insight into the much-anticipated new movie, saying it will challenge the notion of white supremacy in the US.
He said: "My movie is about the country being torn apart by [the US Civil War], and the racial aftermath, six, seven, eight, ten years later.
"The issue of white supremacy is being talked about and dealt with, and it’s what the movie’s about."
Quentin Tarantino ‘is a purist’
