Its not plagiarism, but the similarities between Fair Game and The Hateful Eight are there.
[dropcap size=small]A[/dropcap]ccording to Joe Leydon, Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight has many similarities with Nick Adams’ old western series The Rebel episode called Fair Game. Even though the episode premiered back in March of 1960. You can read the synopsis below and decide for yourself how similar they are.
“At a Wild West stagecoach station, passengers disembark and settle in for the evening. The usual proprietor is not on the premises, but a substitute offers hospitality and hot coffee to the disparate travelers. One of the passengers is a bounty hunter accompanying a handcuffed prisoner — an impudent shady lady who’s said to be much deadlier than she looks. Indeed, the bounty hunter intends to escort her to another town, where he expects to collect a large reward, and she expects to be hanged for murder. Conversations among the strangers — assuming they really are unknown to each other — are something short of amiable, and in some cases downright hostile. And a tense situation only get worse when someone takes a sip of a poisoned beverage — and drops dead on the spot. In the aftermath of this individual’s demise, a debate ensues: Should the remaining travelers agree to let the accused killer go free? Or will someone else accept the task of guarding her — and, while doing so, risk a close encounter with her likely accomplice(s)?”
They sound quite similar to each other, but then again this is Hollywood and you can only make so many movies before some start sharing similarities with others/past shows.
The Hateful Eight will be in theaters on December 25th.
