Quentin Tarantino Hateful Eight suit against Gawker dismissed

Quentin Tarantino 's lawsuit against Gawker over his Hateful Eight script has been dismissed in court.

The director launched the suit against the website in January, after it leaked the script for the post-Civil War Western.

In the suit, Tarantino claimed that Gawker had "crossed the journalistic line" in publishing his script without permission, committing copyright infringement.

However, a Los Angeles court judge has sided with the website, reportedly dismissing Tarantino's complaints in March.

According to court documents obtained by The Wrap , Judge John F Walter stated in his dismissal: "[N]owhere in these paragraphs or anywhere else in the Complaint does Plaintiff allege a single act of direct infringement committed by any member of the general public that would support Plaintiff's claim for contributory infringement.

"Instead, Plaintiff merely speculates that some direct infringement must have taken place."

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The judge argued that Tarantino's suit failed to properly define how Gawker had in fact committed infringement.

Tarantino has been granted the opportunity to revise his initial complaint in compliance with the court by May 1.

In the meantime, while the director previously claimed he had no desire to make The Hateful Eight after the leak, he seems to have reconsidered.

Earlier this week at a live reading of the script for charity, he revealed that he has written a second and third draft, which he hopes to make.

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