Quentin Tarantino sued for allegedly stealing plot of 'Django Unchained'
Quentin Tarantino is being accused of copyright infringement for his movie Django Unchained.
Quentin Tarantino is being accused of copyright infringement for his movie Django Unchained.
According to Variety, the director, along with the Weinstein Company and Columbia Pictures, is named in the lawsuit filed by by Oscar Colvin Jr. and his son Torrrance J. Colvin. The Colvins say that the Django Unchained film infringes on the copyright of their screenplay, Freedom, claiming that the plots of both projects show extensive similarities.
“There are a plethora of similarities between Freedom and Django Unchained,” the suit asserts, reports Variety. “Defendants would call them coincidences, however, the intentional use of our work is neither an accident nor coincidence.”
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The suit goes on to explain the striking similarities: “Before Django Freeman, there was an escaped slave named Jackson Freeman who desired to purchase his family’s freedom from a malevolent plantation owner.”
The suit also points out the similarities between the moment Django returns to free his wife and a similar moment in the Freedom script. “Returning to the hellish realm of the South to purchase the freedom of his loved one(s) with the assistance of a Caucasian in the South is the uniquely original beat that links Django Unchained to Freedom.”
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Additionally, the suit alleges, “Defendant Tarantino claims to have based his screenplay on Sergio Corbucci’s Django, but the truth is that there are far more similarities between Freedom and Django Unchained than between Django and Django Unchained.”
Tarantino’s film grossed over $425 million worldwide, and the new suit asks for damages to be paid in the “hundreds of millions of dollars.”
