Quentin Tarantino suing Gawker over leaked script
JEFF PACHOUD/AFP/Getty ImagesQuentin Tarantino has moved to sue Gawker Media group for what he considers pushing his leaked script for film project 'The Hateful Eight' further out into the Internet by linking to it in an article.
Tarantino has filed a copyright lawsuit against Gawker, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
'Gawker Media has made a business of predatory journalism, violating people's rights to make a buck,' Tarantino's lawyers claim in the lawsuit, obtained by THR.
' Rather than merely publishing a news story reporting that Plaintiff's screenplay may have been circulating in Hollywood without his permission, Gawker Media crossed the journalistic line by promoting itself to the public as the first source to read the entire Screenplay illegally.'
On Thursday Gawker's Defamer blog posted an article titled 'Here Is the Leaked Quentin Tarantino 'Hateful Eight' Script,' and apparently the Oscar-winning director caught wind of the blatant headline.
The website has also reportedly refused to take down the posted URL links to the script, THR reports.
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Just a day before Gawker's post Tarantino was reportedly furious about his script being leaked. So much so, that he declared he would be abandoning the project as his next film.
'I'm very, very depressed,' the 'Django: Unchained' director told Deadline.com.
'I finished a script, a first draft, and I didn't mean to shoot it until next winter, a year from now. I gave it to six people and apparently it's gotten out today.'
He identified the six people who had the script as actors Bruce Dern, Michael Madsen, Tim Roth and their agents.
'The one I know didn't do this is Tim Roth,' he said.
'One of the others let their agent read it and that agent has now passed it on to everyone in Hollywood. I don't know how these f---ing agents work, but I'm not making this next...'
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