Quentin Tarantino has reportedly refiled his lawsuit against a website over the leaked script for his upcoming film 'The Hateful Eight,' just weeks after the case was dismissed by a judge.
The filmmaker took legal action against Gawker in January after it shared links to another location where the leaked script for the screenplay could be accessed but a judge sided with the website over Tarantino.
Quentin Tarantino has reportedly refiled his lawsuit over The Hateful Eight script (WENN)
The Hollywood director was given until May 1 to revise his complaint and according to Entertainment Weekly, he did so just in time, and lodged amended legal documents, this time reportedly alleging a single count of copyright infringement: direct and contributory.
In the amended lawsuit, Tarantino allegedly states: "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."
On April 22, Judge John F. Walter refuted Tarantino's initial lawsuit, claiming his attorneys failed to put forward their facts "establishing direct infringement by a third party."
Tarantino is reportedly requesting that Gawker pay $1 million plus damages and legal fees.
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