Quentin Tarantino Blasts Kanye West's Claim He STOLE Django Unchained From Him!
29.10.2022 - 06:01
/ perezhilton.com
We so wish this was the most controversial thing Kanye West had said over the past couple weeks… and as easily discredited.
Lost in the sea of antisemitism, conspiracy theories, and other vile things the rapper has spewed this month, he also claimed in there somewhere that Django Unchained was really his idea. He told Piers Morgan in their wide-ranging interview that Quentin Tarantino had stolen the idea from him after he pitched it to star Jamie Foxx as the idea for his music video for 2005’s Gold Digger. He claimed:
This is just how Ye works. He calls himself a genius in all forms enough and eventually he believes it — and grows to believe he’s the author of everything he likes… in his own mind anyway.
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The claim is obviously somewhere adjacent to the truth — but Tarantino tells it quite a bit differently. The filmmaker guested on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday night, and the host had to ask about the boast. QT stated unequivocally:
He says he’d been toying with the idea for Django Unchained — which is named after the cowboy character played by Franco Nero in many a spaghetti western — “for a while before I ever met Kanye.” So what did happen with the Yeezy founder? They met when the hitmaker “wanted to do a giant movie version of The College Dropout” and was pitching to giant-sized music videos to Hollywood powerhouses:
Quentin says he thought of the project pitch as the mutual fans’ “excuse to meet each other.” But Ye “did have an idea for a video” that he liked, and it did feature Kanye playing a slave:
He continued:
What did happen with the video? Kanye and Jamie, who sang on the chorus of Gold Digger, starred in a much less ambitious video by Hype Williams.
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