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Topics: Film and TV, Kanye West, Quentin Tarantino, Jamie Foxx
Gregory Robinson
Topics: Film and TV, Kanye West, Quentin Tarantino, Jamie Foxx
Kanye West has seemingly thrown shots at Quentin Tarantino and Jamie Foxx for ripping off his idea for Django Unchained.
In a new controversial interview with Piers Morgan, Ye claimed that the hit revisionist Western film was based on one of his own ideas.
West and Foxx previously collaborated on the 2005 hit 'Gold Digger', for which the Ray actor provided guest vocals.
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The critically acclaimed rapper said he pitched Foxx and Tarantino the idea for a slavery-themed music video for the song and he has now alleged that some of his ideas for the video were eventually used Django Unchained.
“Tarantino can write a movie about slavery where - actually him and Jamie, they got the idea from me because the idea for ‘Django’ I pitched to Jamie Foxx and Quentin Tarantino as the video for ‘Gold Digger’” West allied.
"And then Tarantino turned it into a film.”
West’s alleged original concept for the 'Gold Digger' video clearly went unused as the actual video, which was directed by Hype Williams, features a bunch of female models in fictional moving magazine covers.
Django Unchained is set in the Old West and Antebellum South and follows a black slave - played by Foxx - who trains under a German bounty hunter, with the ultimate goal of reuniting with his long-lost wife.
Development on Django Unchained started back in 2007 when Tarantino was busy writing a book on Sergio Corbucci, who directed the 1966 Italian Spaghetti Western film Django.
The Pulp Fiction auteur discussed his idea with The Telegraph in 2007. “I want to explore something that really hasn’t been done,” he proclaimed. “I want to do movies that deal with America's horrible past with slavery and stuff but do them like spaghetti westerns, not like big issue movies. I want to do them like they're genre films, but they deal with everything that America has never dealt with because it's ashamed of it, and other countries don't really deal with because they don't feel they have the right to.”
UNILAD has contacted representatives for Foxx, Tarantino and Sony Pictures for comment.
West appears to hold no ill feelings towards Foxx, as he recently said in a now-deleted instagram post he would want Foxx to play him in a movie.
“My pick is Jamie Foxx,” he replied to a hypothetical question about a West biopic. “One of the greatest geniuses.”
This marks the latest outburst from the musician, whose recent anti-semitic comments and his decision to buy the conservative social media app Parler have divided and confused the public.
"In a world where conservative opinions are considered to be controversial we have to make sure we have the right to freely express ourselves," West said via a statement released by Parler, as per Reuters.
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