Quentin Tarantino is being accused of being a copycat, and is being sued for copyright infringement by father-and-son screenwriters who claim their are major similarities between his 2012 Oscar-winner Django Unchained and their unproduced screenplay, Freedom.
According to Variety, Oscar Colvin, Jr. and his son Torrrance J. Colvin registered their screenplay with the Writers Guild of America in 2004 as well as the CAA, William Morris Agency and Triggerstreet’s script web site.
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“There are a plethora of similarities between Freedom and Django Unchained,” the suit states. “Defendants would call them coincidences, however, the intentional use of our work is neither an
accident nor coincidence.”
Django Unchained follows a free African-American named Django Freeman (Jamie Foxx) in pre-Civil War American who joins forces with German bounty hunter King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) to capture outlaws and eventually free Django’s wife (Kerry Washington) from a sadistic slave-owner (Leonardo DiCaprio).
The suit claims “before Django Freeman, there was an escaped slave named Jackson Freeman who desired to purchase his family’s freedom from a malevolent plantation owner.”
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The Colvins’ suit further states: “Tarantino claims to have based his screenplay on Sergio Corbucci’s ‘Django,’ but the truth is that there are far more similarities between ‘Freedom’ and ‘Django Unchained’ than between ‘Django’ and ‘Django Unchained.'”
