Quentin Tarantino Says He's Calmed Down After Gawker Script Leak; Tells Cannes `Exactly What I'm Going to Do, I Don't Know

Quentin Tarantino Gawker Script Suit: QuentinTarantino says he's calmed down after the leak of his "The Hateful Eight" script.

The Reservoir Dogs and Django Unchained filmmaker recently dropped his suit against Gawker. Director Quentin Tarantino was at  Cannes to mark the 20th anniversary of Pulp Fiction winning the top Palme d'Or Pri. 

On Friday, Tarantino told the crowed at the Cannes Film Festival that he has finally "calmed down" over the leaking The Hateful Eight screenplay.

Talking to reporters, Tarantino explained "The knife-in-the-back wound is starting to scab, and I have calmed down on it."

Tarantinio had to cancel plans to start shooting The Hateful Eight in January. "Exactly what I'm going to do, I don't know. I'm in the process of writing it, of finishing the second draft and then I intend to do a third draft. ... "I'm in no hurry and maybe I'll shoot it, maybe I'll publish it. Maybe I'll do it on the stage... maybe I'll do all three, but we'll find out," he said.

On May 1, Quentin Tarantino hit Gawker with an amended complaint in his "The Hateful Eight" script copyright infringement lawsuit. He was seeking $1 million after the site posted his screenplay. Tarantino also wanted a court order preventing Gawker from using the screenplay.

In a filing made in federal court by Tarantino's lawyers Marty Singer, Harry Self III and Evan Spiegel the notice read "The Hateful Eight" is hereby given that... plaintiff Quentin Tarantino ("Plaintiff") voluntarily dismisses the above-captioned action, in its entirety, without prejudice."

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Tarantino dismissed the lawsuit voluntarily, but could refile it at a later date. The dismissal motion allegedly says he "may later advance an action and refile a complaint after further investigations to ascertain and plead the identities of additional infringers resulting from Gawker Media's contributory copyright infringement, by its promotion, aiding and abetting and materially contributing to the dissemination to third-parties of unauthorized copies of plaintiff's copyrighted work."
The second suit included 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.
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."
Months ago, Tarantino told Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show," "I haven't told anyone this publicly, but I will say the genre: It's a western. I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it's like 'OK! Let me make another one now that I know what I'm doing.'"
After Quentin Tarantino Gawker, the director of "Reservoir Dogs" and "Pulp Fiction" learned that his script "The Hateful Eight" was leaked after he gave it to a small circle of actors, he dropped all plans to make it.

At the time, Tarantino said "I'm very, very depressed. I finished a script, a first draft, and I didn't mean to shoot it until next winter, a year from now. I gave it to six people, and apparently it's gotten out today. ... That's a betrayal, but not crippling because the agent didn't end up with the script. There is an ugly maliciousness to the rest of it. I gave it to three actors: Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, Tim Roth. The one I know didn't do this is Tim Roth. One of the others let their agent read it, and that agent has now passed it on to everyone in Hollywood. I don't know how these fucking agents work, but I'm not making this next. I'm going to publish it, and that's it for now. I give it out to six people, and if I can't trust them to that degree, then I have no desire to make it. I'll publish it. I'm done. I'll move on to the next thing. I've got 10 more where that came from."