Director Quentin Tarantino is being sued for plagiarism by a man accusing him of stealing his idea for Kill Bill, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in Los Angeles. Dannez Hunter filed a suit against Tarantino and former Miramax chairman Harvey Weinstein — among others — claiming he had sent a treatment to the company that featured a character named Ren who boasts a Samurai lineage, and watched her mother get killed in cartoon form. Four years later, Tarantino released Kill Bill. Hunter is seeking $1 million in damages.
Mar 9
2010
02:57 PM ET
Quentin Tarantino hit with plagiarism lawsuit
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This is bogus. The only thing in Kill Bill that remotely resembles Hunter’s story is Lucy Lui’s character’s storyline.
Many random thoughts . . .
1) At first, I thought the suit was going to be on behalf of the makers of “Lady Snowblood”.
2) Timely, isn’t this? That only took a decade to file.
3) He forgot to mention Ren’s friend, Stimpy.
“3) He forgot to mention Ren’s friend, Stimpy.” Classic!!!
Yeah, but this dude doesn’t have an army of lawyers scanning for proof that the idea was in fact stolen, you morons. Think if your idea was actually stolen but you didn’t know- a few years after your script is rejected you see a very similar thing on the big screen. What would you do, probably nothing unless you got more proof, which would take luck or lawyers.
Frankly, that scene doesn’t seem Tarantinos style because it has -such- little dialogue, it’s really quite different. I wouldn’t put it past Tarantino to steal from unknowns- to him, ends justify the means!
I’m also Nate, maybe I posted and forgot, but I agree, QT definitely would steal from unknowns, ends justify the means.
Hmmm…I think this will inspire me to file my lawsuit against the author(s) of the Rosetta Stone later today. It’s just been so much papyrus-work!
Good grief, what is up with these lawsuits? You know what this says to me? That no one out there has an original idea, with how many people on the planet we are all bound to have similar ideas. I mean, come on!
Quentin Tarantino may “steal” from older movies to make his visions come to life, but I have a hard time believing that he’d out-and-out lift an idea like this. I’d look to the Weinsteins for an answer.
honestly? this is retarded… the character is o-Ren Ishii and anyone could do that… duh.
A little slow to react don’t you think. Maybe if the suit was filed 10 years ago then it’d be a possibility but still I’d prob doubt it. What court is going to see a plaigirism case that was filed 7 years after the release of the movie?
For all from Tarantino fans consider this. People do have original ideas, otherwise we’d have stayed cavemen to this day. Ideas can’t be copywrited anyway but it’s possible somebody ran with his treatment. Especially being an unknown. It was foolish to wait seven years though.
Maybe the dude ran into proof and realized the similarities were more than a co inky dink
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