- Last month, a federal judge dismissed his original suit
- The suit seeks more than $ 1 million
- “This time they went too far,” Tarantino says, of Gawker
(CNN) — Aaaand … take 2!
Not one to give up, director Quentin Tarantino has filed an amended lawsuit against the gossip website Gawker for linking to the leaked screenplay for his next movie, “Hateful Eight.”
Last month, a federal judge dismissed his original suit, ruling that Tarantino had failed to prove that Gawker’s actions was direct copyright infringement.
The judge, John F. Walter of the Central District of California, then gave Tarantino’s lawyers until Thursday to refile.
And so, they did. And they’re seeking more than $ 1 million.
Tarantino’s lawyers are arguing that Gawker encouraged a reader to ‘leak’ a copy of the screenplay, downloaded it, and then made it available to the public by linking to it.
“Gawker has made a business of predatory journalism, violating people’s rights to make a buck,” the amended lawsuit says. “This time they went too far.”
How it all began
“Hateful Eight” is a Western that Tarantino said he was hoping to take on as his next project. It’s in the same genre as his 2012 hit “Django Unchained,” a movie that won him an Oscar for writing and a Golden Globe for best screenplay.
He told the gossip site Deadline that he’d given the script to only six people, including actors Michael Madsen, best known as the killer in Tarantino’s “Reservoir Dogs;” and Tim Roth, for whom “Reservoir Dogs” was his breakthrough role.
Somehow, the script leaked. It was posted through a site that lets users anonymously upload and download files.
In January, Gawker linked to the website hosting the script. “Here Is the Leaked Quentin Tarantino Hateful Eight Sript,” the headline on the story read.
Although Gawker didn’t post the script to its own site,
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