Two months before the release of Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, the head of America’s largest police union says his organization has a “surprise” planned for both the film and its director.
The Hateful Eight is facing a nationwide law enforcement boycott, after Tarantino described police officers as “murderers” at an anti-police brutality rally last month.
“When I see murders, I do not stand by… I have to call a murder a murder and I have to call the murderers the murderers,” said Tarantino on Oct. 24 at an event for RiseUpOctober.
After Tarantino doubled and tripled down on the comments this week in interviews with the Los Angeles Times and MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, a number of police associations spoke out, solidifying pledges to boycott the much-anticipated western, which is Tarantino’s ninth film.
Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) executive director Joe Paso now tells The Hollywood Reporter his organization has something bigger planned.
“Something is in the works, but the element of surprise is the most important element,” he said. “Something could happen anytime between now and [the debut of The Hateful Eight]. And a lot of it is going to be driven by Tarantino, who is nothing if not predictable.”
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