Quentin Tarantino and Miramax have settled their lawsuit in connection with Pulp Fiction NFTs. So yes, that’s partly what QT has been doing instead of writing his 10th and final film.
A joint statement read: “The parties have agreed to put this matter behind them and look forward to working with each other on future projects, including possible NFTs.”
The lawsuit dates back to last year and stems from Quentin Tarantino’s attempts to market and sell Pulp Fiction NFTs through OpenSea, the first place for non-fungible tokens. Miramax quickly tried to put the kibosh on that, saying the writer/director couldn’t do such an act since the studio owned “all rights.” However, Tarantino claimed that he actually had publishing rights to the film that won him his first Oscar.
Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction NFTs would offer “first uncut handwritten scripts of Pulp Fiction and exclusive custom commentary from Tarantino revealing secrets about the film and its creator.” A major feature of the NFTs would have been access to exclusive deleted scenes.
Tarantino reportedly went ahead with the auction anyway, selling one of the NFTs for $1.1 million. That’s 220,000 five-dollar milkshakes! The other six NFT auctions were cancelled.
Quentin Tarantino originally split Miramax following Harvey Weinstein’s rape and sexual abuse allegations. While with Miramax/The Weinstein Company, Tarantino personally earned five Academy Award nominations, winning two for Best Original Screenplay. His first film after the split, the Sony-distributed one Once Upon a Time in Hollywoodearned 10 Oscar nods, the most for any of his films.
In July, Quentin Tarantino launched The video archive’s podcast with friend and Pulp Fiction co-author Roger Avary. They discuss various films from the video store the duo worked in. His next book, a film criticism and analysis collection titled Cinema speculationcomes in November.
