Pulp Fiction director Quentin Tarantino in Australia for The Hateful Eight film premiere in 2016

LEGENDARY director Quentin Tarantino will come to Sydney and Melbourne for the premiere of his highly anticipated next movie.

REVERED director Quentin Tarantino will saddle up Down Under next year with his new movie.

The two-time Oscar-winner will host a premiere of his western The Hateful Eight in Sydney and a fan event in Melbourne in January to talk up his new movie that stars Kurt Russell as a bounty hunter and Jennifer Jason Leigh as a fugitive, as well as perennial Tarantino favourites Samuel L Jackson, Tim Roth, who starred in ‘one of the most unwatchable films in recent memory’, and Michael Madsen.

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On his way ... It’s the director’s first film since 2012’s Django Unchained.

The movie is the director’s second western in a row after 2012’s Django Unchained took more than $450 million at the box office to become Tarantino’s most successful release, winning him Best Original Screenplay Oscar and a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Christoph Waltz.

Tarantino, whose other movies include Pulp Fiction and Inglourious Basterds, nearly dropped plans for The Hateful Eight after the script, about a motley collection of Old West characters holed up stagecoach stopover during a blizzard, leaked in 2014.

The famously old-school director shot the movie, which he says inspired in part by the beloved TV series Bonanza, on 70mm film and in the ultra-wide format Panavision, which reached the height of its popularity more than 50 years ago.

Both the Australian screenings attended by Tarantino will be screened in 70mm.

Originally published as Pulp Fiction director Quentin Tarantino in Australia for The Hateful Eight film premiere in 2016