Quentin Tarantino fires back at Kanye West taking credit for ‘Django Unchained’

Quentin Tarantino has unchained the reality about Kanye West taking credit score for developing with the idea of “Django Unchained.”

Tarantino, who received an Oscar for Finest Unique Screenplay for the movie in 2012, cleared the air on Ye’s declare whereas showing on “Jimmy Kimmel Dwell!” on Saturday.

Towards the tip of their 20-minute interview, Kimmel excitedly requested Tarantino concerning the claims West made throughout his “Piers Morgan Uncensored” interview.

“Nicely, there’s not reality that Kanye West got here up with the concept of ‘Django,’ Tarantino mentioned, “After which he informed it to me and I am going, ‘Hey wow, that’s a very nice concept. Let me take Kanye’s concept and make ‘Django Unchained’ out of it.’ That didn’t occur.”

The director assured Kimmel and his viewers that he had the concept for Django properly earlier than he even met West.

Quentin Tarantino has responded to claims that Kanye made that the legendary director stole the concept for “Django Unchained” from him.

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Tarantino says he met West whereas he was trying to do a characteristic movie for his 2004 album “The Faculty Dropout” and claims the assembly was an excuse to fulfill each other.

“He did have an concept for a video and I do assume it was for the ‘Gold Digger,’” Tarantino mentioned, saying that he thought West’s concept for the music video was “very humorous.”

The filmmaker mentioned he wished West had adopted by means of with making the music video as they mentioned, saying it sounded “actually cool.”

Tarantino and West met when Kanye was looking for a director to shoot his album “Faculty Dropout” as a characteristic movie.

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“Django Unchained” hit theaters in 2012 and was Tarantino’s eighth movie.

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Kanye and Tarantino pictured collectively on the 2014 LACMA Artwork + Movie Gala.

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On Oct. 19, throughout his heated interview with Piers Morgan, the rapper acknowledged that Tarantino and Foxx took his concept and used it for Tarantino’s movie after pitching it as a music video for his 2005 tune “Gold Digger,” which featured Foxx.

West claims he pitched a slavery-themed story for his video, which by no means got here to be, whereas in a gathering with the famed director and Foxx.

“Tarantino can write a film about slavery, the place really, him and Jamie, they received the concept from me, as a result of the concept for ‘Django’ I pitched to Jamie Foxx and Quentin Tarantino because the video for ‘Gold Digger.’ After which Tarantino turned it into a movie,” West informed Morgan throughout their interview.

Up to now weeks, West has discovered himself deeply entrenched in controversy over quite a few antisemitic remarks made by the Grammy-winning rapper.

West was just lately dropped as a sponsor by the footwear large Adidas.