Quentin Tarantino might have found his next drama. Unfortunately, it’s a real-life courtroom drama.
“Pulp Fiction” filmmaker Tarantino has been slapped with a copyright lawsuit alleging that his 2012 film infringes on a screenplay titled “Freedom.”
In their suit — which also names The Weinstein Company and Columbia Pictures as defendants — Oscar Colvin Jr. and Torrrance J. Colvin claim to have written “Freedom,” described in the lawsuit as a “uniquely original concept” that was ultimately infringed upon by Tarantino.
“Before Django Freeman, there was an escaped slave named Jackson Freeman who desired to purchase his family’s freedom from a malevolent plantation owner,” the suit, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C.,