Quentin Tarantino Slapped With $100 Million-Plus Copyright Lawsuit Over ‘Django Unchained’

Complaint alleges that 2012 film was derived from screenplay “Freedom”

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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.,

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