UPDATED: Quentin Tarantino's attorney has responded to a lawsuit filed Tuesday accusing the director of copyright infringement by selling NFTs based on the screenplay for "Pulp Fiction."“Miramax is wrong -- plain and simple," Tarantino's attorney Bryan Freedman said in a statement. "Quentin Tarantino’s contract is clear: he has the right to sell NFTs of his hand-written script for Pulp Fiction and this ham-fisted attempt to prevent him from doing so will fail. But Miramax’s callous decision to disclose confidential information...
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The cherished but controversial director spent the pandemic lockdown with his wife and son in her native Israel, working not on the script for his tenth — and potentially final, per Tarantino — film, but his first book, a novelization of his 2019 release “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood.” Dubbed a “pulpy page-turner” by The New York Times, the 400-page paperback, published in June 2021, expanded on characters’ backstories, changed up some scenes and served as a platform for Tarantino to further expound on his late ’60s pop culture obsessions. It’s the first product of a two-book deal he signed with HarperCollins in 2020 that will be followed by “Cinema Speculation,” described as a deep dive into ’70s cinema-mixing essays, reviews and personal recollections.