Quentin Tarantino finally responds to the police boycott against The Hateful Eight.
After keeping quiet for over a week and several police unions organized a boycott of all Quentin Tarantino movies, The Weinstein Co. is finally opening up on Quentin Tarantino’s comments on police brutality.
According to an exclusive statement to The Hollywood Reporter, The Weinstein company expresses their respect for the filmmaker but, shows that they do not speak for the director.
“The Weinstein Co. has a long-standing relationship and friendship with Quentin and has a tremendous amount of respect for him as a filmmaker,” a Weinstein Co. representative told The Hollywood Reporter in a statement. “We don’t speak for Quentin; he can and should be allowed to speak for himself.”
But, Quentin Tarantino released a statement as well addressing the controversy for the first time, telling the Los Angeles Times that he would not be intimidated by police boycotts.
“Instead of dealing with the incidents of police brutality that those people were bringing up, instead of examining the problem of police brutality in this country, better they single me out,” Tarantino said to The Hollywood Reporter.
“And their message is very clear. It’s to shut me down. It’s to discredit me. It is to intimidate me. It is to shut my mouth, and even more important than that, it is to send a message out to any other prominent person that might feel the need to join that side of the argument.”
It is important to point out that Quentin Tarantino wanted to let the world know that he did not call all cops “murderers”. “All cops are not murderers. I never said that. I never even implied that.”
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Quentin Tarantino revealed that Tarantino was receiving a ton of pressure from the studio.
Behind closed doors, sources say TWC board members have been pressuring co-founder Harvey Weinstein to clean up the mounting mess that has emerged in the wake of Tarantino calling police officers “murderers.” Sources say some on the board are fearful that the company’s upcoming Tarantino film, The Hateful Eight, will take a direct economic hit thanks to a widening police boycott of the director
This controversy all started when Tarantino attended an anti-police brutality rally in New York City on October 24th. He told the crowd, “When I see murders, I do not stand by. … I have to call a murder a murder, and I have to call the murderers the murderers.”
Since then, several police unions have boycotted all future Quentin Tarantino movies.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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