Quentin Tarantino Dismisses Kanye West’s ‘Django Unchained’ Concept Declare

Quentin Tarantino has dismissed Kanye West’s declare that he and Jamie Foxx “received the concept” for the idea of their 2012 movie “Django Unchained” from him.

West — who legally modified his identify to Ye in 2021 — stated he pitched an analogous concept when initially brainstorming the music video for his 2005 music “Gold Digger,” which options Foxx. Ye launched the official music video in 2009, which facilities on a montage of Foxx and Ye dancing with numerous pin-up fashions.

Tarantino appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Reside” on Thursday and the host requested him: “Kanye West stated that he got here up with the concept for ‘Django Unchained.’ He stated that when he was making the ‘Gold Digger’ video with Jamie Foxx, he pitched it to you guys as a video and you then made it – is there any fact to that?”

Tarantino replied: “There’s not fact to the concept that Kanye West got here up with the concept of ‘Django’ after which he advised that to me, and I am going, ‘Hey, wow, that’s a extremely nice concept. Let me take Kanye’s concept and make ‘Django Unchained’ out of it.’ That didn’t occur.”

“I’d had the concept for ‘Django’ for some time earlier than I ever met Kanye. He needed to do an enormous film model of ‘The Faculty Dropout’ [Ye’s debut studio album] the best way he did the album – so he needed to get huge administrators to do totally different tracks from the album after which launch it as this large film – not video, nothing as crass as movies, it was motion pictures, motion pictures primarily based on every of the totally different tracks,” Tarantino added.

“We used it as an excuse to fulfill one another and and so we met one another we had a extremely good time. And he did have an concept for a video. I do suppose it was for the ‘Gold Digger’ video, that he can be a slave. And the entire thing was the slave narrative the place he’s a slave and he’s singing ‘Gold Digger.’ And it was very humorous. It was a extremely, actually humorous concept,” Tarantino stated.

Kimmel interjected: “It was a humorous slave video, I imply…”

Tarantino responded: “It was meant to be ironic. And it’s like an enormous musical. I imply, like no bills spared with him on this slave rag outfit, doing every thing. After which that was additionally a part of the a part of the pushback on it. However I want he had finished it. It sounded actually cool. Anyway, that’s what he’s referring to.”

Ye is at the moment going through an enormous backlash after his latest antisemitic feedback.