Quentin Tarantino Gawker Suit Will Not Go Away; `Pulp Fiction’ Director in Mexican Standoff Against Gawker for Leaking `Hateful Eight’ Screenplay Online

Quentin Tarantino Gawker suit is coming back to a courtroom near you. "Reservoir Dogs" and "Pulp Fiction" director Quentin Tarantino is not backing down from the leakers at Gawker. Tarantino is coming heavy to the courts.

Quentin Tarantino refiled his suit against Gawker over their leak of his "Hateful Eight" screenplay. Tarantino is seeking damages of more than $1 million. The "Django" director also wants a court order preventing Gawker from using the screenplay.

Quentin Tarantino refiled the suit against Gawker Media over his leaked script for the unproduced ensemble western "The Hateful Eight." The new suit includes a new allegation that Gawker directly infringed his copyright by downloading the script.

The original lawsuit was dismissed Last month after a federal judge ruled that Tarantino failed to prove that Gawker's actions was direct copyright infringement. U.S. District Court Judge John F. Walter dismissed Tarantino's original lawsuit on April 22 but gave Tarantino and his legal team until May 1 to revise the lawsuit.

Tarantino's lawyers filed an amended lawsuit that claims 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.

The amended lawsuit says "Gawker 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 within certain limited Hollywood circles without his permission, Gawker crossed the journalistic line, first by requesting that a reader 'leak' an infringing copy directly to Gawker, then second, after obtaining a link to and itself directly downloading an infringing PDF copy, and then third, by promoting itself to the public as the first source to download and read the entire screenplay illegally and directing the public to do so."