Tarantino files lawsuit against leak

Legendary director Quentin Tarantino has taken legal action over the leak of his latest script.

The director, has halted  plans to make Hateful Eight after the leak last week and has filed a copyright case against Gawker Media for circulating copies of the script, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Not long after news of the leak surfaced, a link to the script was posted on Gawker’s blog.

The lawsuit states: “Gawker Media has made a business of predatory journalism, violating people’s rights to make a buck. This time they went too far.

“Rather than merely publishing a news story reporting that plaintiff’s screenplay may have been circulating in Hollywood without his permission, Gawker Media crossed the journalistic line by promoting itself to the public as the first source to read the entire Screenplay illegally.”

Tarantino revealed that the leak had left him feeling betrayed and ‘very depressed’, and named several people with whom he had shared the script.