In Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, James Parks plays the stagecoach driver O.B. Jackson.
O.B. drives the stagecoach carrying bounty hunter John Ruth, captured outlaw Daisy Domergue, and fellow bounty hunter Major Marquis Warren toward the town of Red Rock. A blizzard forces the travelers to stop at Minnie’s Haberdashery, where they meet several strangers who may not be who they claim to be.
O.B. is not one of the film’s primary investigators, but he is essential to the enclosed setting. As the driver, he connects the travelers to the outside world and helps establish the practical circumstances of their forced shelter. His role can be confused with the other men at the haberdashery, including Oswaldo Mobray and Joe Gage.
The Hateful Eight was released in 2015 and was photographed in the rare Ultra Panavision 70 format. Its extended road-show version included an overture and intermission. The story’s mystery depends on the restricted location, shifting identities, and competing accounts of what happened before the travelers arrived.