Tarantino dismisses Kanye’s Django claims

Now we ain’t sayin’ he’s a daring fibber…Earlier this week, Kanye West stirred up a bit controversy–oh, no, not that. Quite, he made the declare that Django Unchained was his thought, saying, that “[Quentin] and Jamie, they bought 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’… then Tarantino turned it into a movie.” This, as we anticipated, is 100% false.

Quentin Tarantino has been open about his influences–however Kanye West just isn’t on the identical record as Sergio Leone and Brian DePalma. Showing on Jimmy Kimmel Reside! this week to advertise his new e book, Cinema Hypothesis, Quentin Tarantino shut down Kanye West’s claims. “There’s no reality to the concept that Kanye West got here up with the concept of Django after which he instructed that to me, and I am going, ‘Hey, wow, that’s a very nice thought. Let me take Kanye’s thought and make Django Unchained out of it.’ That didn’t occur.”

Tarantino did, nevertheless, make clear on perhaps the place Kanye West was coming from. “He wished to do a large film model of ‘The Faculty Dropout’ the way in which he did the album–so he wished to get huge administrators to do totally different tracks from the album after which launch it as this big film…He did have an thought for a video. I do assume it was for the ‘Gold Digger’ video, that he can be a slave…It sounded actually cool. Anyway, that’s what he’s referring to.”

Within the 20-minute chat with Jimmy Kimmel, Quentin Tarantino additionally touched on being a dad or mum to 2 youngsters, how Wilt Chamberlain might’ve been his stepfather and, in fact, his new e book, which Kanye West will most actually by no means learn.

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