“I’d had the idea for Django for a while before I ever met Kanye.”
Quentin Tarantinois refusing to letKanye Westtake credit as the creative mastermind behind his 2012 action filmDjango Unchained.
Let me take Kanye’s idea and makeDjango Unchainedout of it,'" he said.
Quentin Tarantino; Kanye West.Steve Granitz/WireImage; Kevin Mazur/Getty Images
“That didn’t happen.
I’d had the idea forDjangofor a while before I ever met Kanye.”
“Not videos nothing as crass as videos…
They were going to be movies based on each of the different tracks.”
And it was very funny.
It was a really, really funny idea."
When hostJimmy Kimmelquestioned the idea of a “funny slave movie,” Tarantino clarified his remarks.
“It was meant to be ironic,” he explained.
“And it’s like a huge musical.
I mean, like no expenses spared with him in this slave rag outfit, doing everything.
And then that was also part of the pushback on it.
But I wish he had done it.
It sounded really cool.
Anyway, that’s what he’s referring to.”
“And then Tarantino turned it into a film.”
West’s representatives did not immediately respond to EW’s request for comment.
Watch Tarantino’s interview above.
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