Quentin Tarantino Is Selling His 'Pulp Fiction' NFTs Despite a Pending Lawsuit From Miramax
The collection features the never-before-seen handwritten screenplay.
Quentin Tarantino is going ahead with the sale of his Pulp Fiction NFT series despite legal efforts by Miramax to thwart the release.
Tarantino NFTs, as the project is called, is offering the original handwritten screenplay from the film broken into several iconic scenes minted as one-of-a-kind NFTs. In collaboration with SCRT Labs, the never-before-scene scripts also come with audio commentary from Tarantino himself explaining the significance.
“I have the entire Pulp Fiction script written in my own hand, from page one to the last page,” Tarantino previously said. “It’s kind of just been sitting in a binder in my office on a filing cabinet and the only other person who’s ever seen it was the typist back in 1993.” He added that the pages in the collection include doodles, notes and parts of the film that were ultimately edited out.
After Tarantino announced the project, Miramax, the film studio that produced the 1994 cult classic, filed a lawsuit claiming intellectual property rights over the content. “Tarantino’s conduct has forced Miramax to bring this lawsuit against a valued collaborator in order to enforce, preserve, and protect its contractual and intellectual property rights relating to one of Miramax’s most iconic and valuable film properties,” the company wrote in its lawsuit.
Miramax believes that it “holds the rights needed to develop, market, and sell NFTs relating to its deep film library,” though Tarantino’s lawyers dispute this.
On Wednesday, the project announced that it was going ahead with its January 10 release date.
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It’s unclear what will happen, as NFTs are still a relatively new concept and laws regarding intellectual property in the digital space remain vague. According to The New York Times, a hearing to schedule the next stage of the lawsuit is set for February.
Curious collectors can fill out an interest form or join the waitlist on the project’s website for updates on the drop.
In other news, a collection of Bored Ape NFTs was stolen from a gallery owner.
