Quentin Tarantino denies stealing Django Unchained idea from singer Kanye West

In case there was any doubt that the idea of ​​the film by Django Unchained had not left the head of the director and screenwriter Quentin Tarantino, it has been himself the one in charge of denying the accusations of the singer Kanye West who claimed to have been the one who told the plot of the film to both Tarantino and Jamie Foxx several years before its release.

“There is nothing true in the statements that kanye-west he was the one who came up with the idea for Django, then told me about it and I was like, “Hey, what a great idea. I’m going to take Kanye’s idea and do Django Unchained.” That never happened,” Tarantino said. On his last visit to the program Jimmy Kimmel where he was asked directly about this controversy.

“I had the idea to do Django long before I even met Kanye.. When we first met, it was because he wanted to make a gigantic movie about his ‘The College Dropout’ album. [el álbum debut del cantante] and how he had managed to pull it off. He wanted to have different directors to make movies about each of the themes.”

remembered Tarantino that he did acknowledge that the singer had told him an idea for a music video about slavery. “When we met he told me the idea for a music video, I think the one with Gold Digger, in which he was a slave. It was like a story about slavery where he was singing.”

A crossover between Django and Zorro

As if everything related to the creation of Django Unchained and Kanye West was not crazy enough, a few months ago rumors began to spread that Quentin Tarantino is working on a crossover film of the character of Jamie Foxx and Zorro by Antonio Banderas.

Some rumors that seem to have some truth, well Flags He already revealed on one occasion that Tarantino had approached him at an awards gala to tell him about the idea and that he had loved it. In fact, he said that he signed up for whatever Tarantino wantedeven if it was a Django and Zorro crossover.