Django Unchained - Tarantinos new western

Quentin Tarantino has reportedly withdrawn his latest Western film after the script was leaked.

The director told Deadline that he only shared his script for The Hateful Eight with six people but the "betrayal" has left him with "no desire to make it".

"I'm very, very depressed," Tarantino explained. "I finished a script, a first draft, and I didn't mean to shoot it until next winter, a year from now. I gave it to six people, and apparently it's gotten out today."

The 50-year-old realised it had been leaked after his long-time agent Mike Simpson began receiving phone calls from agents trying to get their clients a role on the film.

Tarantino named several people he gave the script to, including Django Unchained producer Reggie Hudlin, and the actors Michael Madsen, Tim Roth and Bruce Dern - the latter confirming he had entered talks to star in the film last week.

"The one I know didn't do this is Tim Roth. One of the others let their agent read it and that agent has now passed it on to everyone in Hollywood. I don't know how these f**king agents work, but I'm not making this next."

As a result, the filmmaker will now publish the script and move onto new projects.

"I give it out to six people and if I can't trust them to that degree, then I have no desire to make it," he lamented. "I'll publish it. I'm done. I'll move on to the next thing. I've got ten more where that came from."