Samuel L Jackson has tweeted the first images featuring the full main cast of Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight.

Jackson’s pair of selfies were taking during rehearsals for the western, which is due to begin shooting in January on location in Colorado. The eight members of Jackson’s ensemble were revealed by Tarantino earlier in November. They are Jackson as Major Marquis Warren, Kurt Russell as John ‘The Hangman’ Ruth, Jennifer Jason Leigh as Daisy Domergue, Walton Goggins as Chris Mannix, Demian Bichir as Bob, Tim Roth as Oswaldo Mobray, Michael Madsen as Joe Gage and Bruce Dern as General Sanford Smithers. Channing Tatum has also signed on for an unspecified role.

A synopsis, also released earlier in November, reads: “In The Hateful Eight, set six or eight or 12 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 travellers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock after all...”

Tarantino abandoned plans for The Hateful Eight in January in a fit of pique after a version of the script was leaked on to the internet, but later backtracked.

Distributor the Weinstein Company said in September that the movie would have the widest 70mm release in more than 20 years.