Quentin Tarantino Addresses Kanye West’s Claim of Having Come Up With Idea for ‘Django Unchained’



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There is nary “fact” to the thought that the creator antecedently referred to arsenic Kanye West got present up with the conception successful the backmost of Django Unchained, says writer and manager Quentin Tarantino.

During an look connected Jimmy Kimmel Live connected Thursday successful promoting of his caller nonfiction e publication Cinema Speculation, retired astatine the apical of consequent month, Tarantino was requested astir the state Ye added successful a existent Piers Morgan interview.

“Okay, properly, there’s present not world to the conception that Kanye West came up with the thought of Django aft which helium instructed it to maine and I transverse ‘Hey, wow. That’s a honestly archetypal complaint concept. Let maine instrumentality Kanye’s thought and marque Django Unchained retired of it.’ That didn’t appear,” Tarantino stated heavy into the 20-minute discussion, much peculiarly crossed the 17:forty mark.

As Tarantino talked about, he’d had the thought for Django (starring Jamie Foxx) “for a while” erstwhile his instauration to Ye. As for that advent, however, Tarantino recovered retired that Ye did notation an thought for a “Gold Digger” video helium changed into mulling connected the time, adjacent though it yet ne'er got present to fruition.

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“He desired to bash a elephantine movie exemplary of College Dropout, the mode helium did the album,” Tarantino said. “So helium desired to get monolithic administrators to bash one-of-a-kind tracks from the medium and past motorboat it arsenic this, like, elephantine film. Not videos, ohio no, there’s thing arsenic crass arsenic movies. They person been films. They were gonna beryllium films based wholly connected each of the unsocial tracks. So we utilized it arsenic an excuse, maine and Kanye, we utilized it arsenic an excuse to fulfill each other.”

As for that idea, which Tarantino stated turned into meant to beryllium “ironic,” Ye was proceeding to instrumentality a “no charges spared” method to the could-be manufacturing, a broadside helium highlighted arsenic a portion of wherefore it ne'er happened.

“He did person an conception for a video, and I bash presume it changed into for the ‘Gold Digger’ video, that helium could beryllium a enslaved and the entirety go this enslaved narrative, wherein he’s a enslaved and he’s making a opus ‘Gold Digger,’” Tarantino stated, including that the thought was a “truly, surely humorous” 1 that helium wishes mightiness person made it beyond the idea level.

“But I privation helium had executed it,” Tarantino said. “It sounded simply cool. Anyway, that’s what he’s regarding.”

Tarantino’s Cinema Speculation is retired Nov. 1. Ye, successful the meantime, has misplaced a slew of partnerships successful existent days successful effect to a series of remarks wide condemned arsenic anti-Semitic. 

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