Quentin Tarantino Sues Gawker Over Script Leak

Quentin Tarantino, Oscar winning screenwriter for Pulp Fiction and Django Unchained, is out for revenge.  No games this time.

After publically announcing that he would shelve his upcoming western The Hateful Eight due to a script leak, Tarantino has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Gawker Media for publishing the leaked script.  The paperwork was filed in the U.S. District Courts today where it states: "Jury trial demanded."

The suit, signed by famed entertainment attory Martin Singer, sounds an awful lot like Tarantino himself.  "Gawker Media has made a business of predatory journalism, violating people's rights to make a buck. This time they went too far," it says. "Rather than merely publishing a news story reporting that Plaintiff's screenplay may have been circulating in Hollywood without his permission, Gawker Media crossed thejournalistic line by promoting itself to the public as the first source to read the entire Screenplay illegally. Their headline boasts "˜Here Is the Leaked Quentin Tarantino Hateful Eight Script' "“ "˜Here,' not someplace else, but "˜Here' on the Gawker website."

The famed filmmaker goes on to allege that the script could have been kept out of the public eye, staying within the world of Hollywood, but the unneeded promotion by Gawker sealed its fate.

Tarantino is seeking an injunction against the websites that would stop them from further disseminating the screenplay.  He asks the court for unspecified damages exceeding $1 million.

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Stephen Davis
I owe this hobby/career to the one and only Stephanie Peterman who, while interning at Fox, told me that I had too many opinions and irrelevant information to keep it all bottled up inside. I survived my first rated R film, Alive, at the ripe age of 8, it took me months to grasp the fact that Julia Roberts actually died at the end of Steel Magnolias, and I might be the only person alive who actually enjoyed Sorority Row…for its comedic value of course. While my friends can drink you under the table, I can outwatch you when it comes iconic, yet horrid 80s films like Adventures in Babysitting and Troop Beverly Hills. I have no shame when it comes to what I like, and if you have a problem with that, then we’ll settle it on the racquetball court. I see too many movies to actually win any film trivia contest, so don’t waste your first pick on me. My friends rent movies from my bookcase shelves, and one day I do plan to start charging. I long to live in LA, where my movie obsession will actually help me fit in, but for now I am content with my home in Austin. I prefer indies to blockbusters, Longhorns to Sooners and Halloween to Friday the 13th. I miss the classics, as well as John Ritter, and I hope to one day sit down and interview the amazing Kate Winslet.

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