The trailer for Quentin Tarantino's hotly anticipated "The Hateful Eight" has finally been revealed.

The eighth film in the auteur's oeuvre underwent a rather tumultuous development period with the script leaked online and the director initially deciding to cease production. Eventually Tarantino rethought his process and is just months away from releasing one of the most hotly awaited films of 2015.

The film features a plethora of characters but centers on the octet played by Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern and Mexican actor Demian Bichir.

Bichir is making his debut in a Tarantino film as Bob, "The Mexican." Despite being a prominent character in the film, Bichir appears in just three shots in the entire trailer and does not get a closeup or even a line of dialogue to utter.

He isn't the only one who gets nothing to say in the trailer, but Dern gets a closeup in the trailer and Leigh appears prominently throughout the trailer. Is this indicative of Bichir's role in the film as a whole? No one knows.

What will be more intriguing is how Tarantino portrays "The Mexican" and whether audiences will continue to see the misuse of Latin Americans in stereotypical roles. Audiences wanting the answer to that question will find out on Christmas Day 2015.

The film is slated to include a lot of snappy dialogue and gruesome violence as only Tarantino knows how to deliver.

The film is being released by The Weinstein Company, which has handled all of Tarantino's recent films (the Weinsteins released the auteur's other work with Miramax) and even helped him to a few Oscar nominations for "Django Unchained" and "Inglourious Basterds." Tarantino actually won the Best Original Screenplay for "Django" and actor Christoph Waltz won two Oscars for his work in both of those films.