Kanye West Says Django Unchained Was His Idea

According to Kanye West, Django Unchained was an idea he personally pitched to the hit film’s director and lead star. Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained was released in theaters to great success in 2012. The movie stars Jamie Foxx as a former slave on a mission to rescue his wife from a plantation owner.

In a new interview with Piers Morgan for Piers Morgan Uncensored, West says he was the one who came up with the idea for Django Unchained. Back in 2005, West and Foxx had collaborated on the music video for the song “Gold Digger,” and this is said to be where the concept came from. According to West, he pitched a similar story to Foxx and Tarantino to use for the “Gold Digger” video, leading to the pair using the idea for the movie.

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“Tarantino can write a movie about slavery where – actually him and Jamie, they got the idea from me because the idea for Django, I pitched to Jamie Foxx and Quentin Tarantino as the video for ‘Gold Digger.’ And then Tarantino turned it into a film.”

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Was Django Unchained Kanye’s Idea?

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The music video for “Gold Digger” features Foxx, but is ultimately far different from Django Unchained. As for the veracity of the story, Tarantino has not publicly addressed West’s claims at this time, but he’s never credited the mogul for contributing to the movie’s story in the past. In 2012, Tarantino said in a Django Unchained panel at Comic-Con that he came up with the concept himself while writing a book about Italian spaghetti western director Sergio Corbucci.

“I was writing a book about Sergio Corbucci, when I came up with a way to tell the story. One of the things that’s fun when you write about subtextual criticism… in subtextual film criticism, you don’t have to be right. It doesn’t have to be what the director was thinking. It’s what you’re gathering from it. You’re making a case. I was writing about how his movies have this evil Wild West, a horrible Wild West. It was surreal, it dealt a lot with fascism. So I’m writing this whole piece on this, and I’m thinking: ‘I don’t really know if Sergio was thinking while he was doing this. But I know I’m thinking it now. And I can do it!’”

West may claim his idea was taken for Django Unchained, but that hasn’t made him any less of a fan of Foxx. Recently, West also named Foxx as the actor he’d most want to play him if a biopic were made about his life. This follows actor Danny McBride also making the claim that West approached him about starring in a biopic. No matter who’d play him, such a movie would certainly be interesting.

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