The Hateful Eight WILL be screened in Welwyn Garden City

While leading UK cinema chain Cineworld, which has a cinema in Stevenage, has boycotted the director’s eighth movie, showings are to go ahead in WGC.

The controversial three-hour epic can be seen at the Garden City Cinema from Friday, January 29.

A Cineworld statement said: “We can confirm that The Hateful Eight will not be shown at our cinemas.

“Unfortunately we were not able to reach an agreement with the movie’s distributor.”

The cinema at Campus West, however, will be screening the film.

The Western, starring Kurt Russell, Samuel L Jackson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tim Roth and Michael Madsen, received three Golden Globe nominations, with Ennio Morricone winning Best Original Score.

Set after the end of the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape.

Bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his fugitive Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) race towards the town of Red Rock, where Ruth, known as ‘The Hangman’, will bring Domergue to justice.

Along the road, they encounter Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L Jackson), a former Union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix, a renegade who claims to be the town’s new Sheriff.

Losing their lead on the blizzard, Ruth, Domergue, Warren and Mannix seek refuge at Minnie’s Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover.

When they arrive, they are greeted by four unfamiliar faces: Bob, who takes care of Minnie’s in the owner’s absence; Oswaldo Mobray, the hangman of Red Rock; cow-puncher Joe Gage; and Confederate General Sanford Smithers.

As the storm overtakes the mountainside, the eight travellers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock after all.

* To check WGC screening times and to book tickets, visit the Garden City Cinema website.