Listed as one of the most anticipated original films of 2015, director and screenwriter Quentin Tarantino's 10th feature-length motion picture "The Hateful Eight" has made a lot of headlines. The award-winning film auteur sat down to a Q&A with Deadline to discuss the new film and may have more than suggested that the film may soon retire shortly are promotional tour of the film has completed.

"I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more. I do think directing is a young man's game, and I like the idea of an umbilical cord connection from my first to my last movie. I'm not trying to ridicule anyone who thinks differently, but I want to go out while I'm still hard," he said in a panel discussion shot by The Independent.

He continued: "I like that I will leave a 10-film filmography, and so I've got two more to go after this. It's not etched in stone, but that is the plan. If I get to the 10th, do a good job and don't screw it up, well that sounds like a good way to end the old career."

Tarantino's films, noted for their non-linear storylines, satirical subject matter and ultraviolence, have enjoyed critical and commercial success. Among them, "Reservoir Dogs," "Pulp Fiction," "Jackie Brown," "Kill Bill" volumes 1 and 2, "Inglourious Basterds," and "Django Unchained" are his best known. Like his previous films, "The Hateful Eight" will boast an all-star cast, including frequent collaborators Bruce Dern, Walton Goggins, Michael Madsen, Tim Roth and Kurt Russell. Actors Jennifer Jason Leigh, Channing Tatum and Demián Bichir will also star.

Most notably, highly prolific actor and Academy Award-nominee Samuel L. Jackson, who has been appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films as S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Colonel Nick Fury, will make an appearance in the film. This is Jackson's sixth appearance in a Tarantino-directed film. In 1993, he starred in the Tony Scott-directed "True Romance" penned by Tarantino.

On Nov. 23, Samuel L. Jackson tweeted on the set of the film: "H8ful Eight w/ all the faces! Headed to the Snow SOON!!"

Although news has spread surrounding the director's departure from filmmaking, Jackson, his cast member and frequent collaborator questioned what he will do if not working in cinema.

"Writing plays and books, going gracefully into my tender years," Tarantino replied.

He added: "I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off."

Produced by long-time Tarantino collaborators Richard N. Gladstein, Stacey Sher and Shannon McIntosh, the post-Civil War spaghetti western will be presented in outstanding 70mm and will be released by The Weinstein Company.

"If we do our jobs right by making this film a 70 mm event, we will remind people why this is something you can't see on television and how this is an experience you can't have when you watch movies in your apartment, your man cave or your iPhone or iPad," Tarantino explained in an interview.

According to a press release, the official synopsis of the film reads: 

"The Hateful Eight, set six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Russell) and his fugitive Daisy Domergue (Leigh), race towards the town of Red Rock where Ruth, known in these parts as "The Hangman," will bring Domergue to justice. Along the road, they encounter two strangers: Major Marquis Warren (Jackson), a black former union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix (Goggins), a southern 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 on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie's, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. Bob (Bichir), who's taking care of Minnie's while she's visiting her mother, is holed up with Oswaldo Mobray (Roth), the hangman of Red Rock, cow-puncher Joe Gage (Madsen), and Confederate General Sanford Smithers (Dern). As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our eight travelers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock after all..."

So, what are we to expect when the film rolls out next Oscar season?

"It's less inspired by one Western movie than by Bonanza, The Virginian, High Chaparral," Tarantino said to Deadline.

"Twice per season, those shows would have an episode where a bunch of outlaws would take the lead characters hostage. They would come to the Ponderosa and hold everybody hostage, or to go Judge Garth's place - Lee J. Cobb played him - in The Virginian and take hostages. There would be a guest star like David Carradine, Darren McGavin, Claude Akins, Robert Culp, Charles Bronson or James Coburn. I don't like that storyline in a modern context, but I love it in a Western, where you would pass halfway through the show to find out if they were good or bad guys, and they all had a past that was revealed. "I thought, 'What if I did a movie starring nothing but those characters? No heroes, no Michael Landons. Just a bunch of nefarious guys in a room, all telling backstories that may or may not be true. Trap those guys together in a room with a blizzard outside, give them guns, and see what happens.' "

"The Hateful Eight" is scheduled for release on Aug. 7, 2015 in North America in theaters.