14 DAY TRIAL // Quentin Tarantino left the 2010 Academy Awards empty-handed, though many fans had hoped he would at least get the award for Best Director since “Inglourious Basterds” was not the favorite for Best Picture. Only one day later, the famed director is being sued for the 2003 blockbuster film “Kill Bill,” with one man claiming he ripped him off, as TMZ has learned.
Papers just filed in a court of law say the man insists the idea for the two-part “Kill Bill” was actually his and that Tarantino shamelessly ripped it off without as much as giving him credit. The man claims he presented the director and some people at the Weinstein Company with the idea, was told he would be contacted for a future collaboration and was never called back. His shock was great when he saw his own ideas in the film, he also states.
“In a lawsuit filed today, Dannez Hunter claims in 1999 he submitted a treatment to Miramax, about a fictional character named Ren. Short story – he says eventually Miramax, Harvey Weinstein and Q.T. ripped-off his work, including the ‘concept/character name Ren.’ He claims Q.T. pilfered Ren witnessing her mother’s sadistic murder, the knife through the mother’s abdomen, and on and on,” TMZ says after seeing the court papers.
But there’s more, as Hunter claims he was discriminated against as well. “Hunter, who says he was from the inner city, applied for a job at Miramax but ‘was never given a return phone call, as numerous similar situated less qualified Jewish and White people were bestowed job after job after job.’ Hunter continues his Jews-run-Hollywood themed lawsuit by alleging he was denied royalties in the ‘Kill Bill’ franchise compared to similarly situated Whites and Jews. Hunter wants more than a million bucks,” TMZ goes on to say.
Unfortunately, Hunter does not say why it took him so many years to come up with the claims or why he waited nearly 7 years to file a lawsuit. He would have had even more reason to do so when he saw Tarantino came out with a second movie one year later, “Kill Bill: Volume II,” it is being said.