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11-09-2011, 10:39 AM
The madness apparently began earlier this year when a YouTube video surfaced depicting a young girl overdosing and a group of kids standing around laughing. Allegedly, an extortion plot was set into motion back in November of 2010 surrounding the footage, in an attempt get a pay day from the people involved. When a deal wasn't reached, footage was slowly released into the world. Apparently there's 393 minutes of recorded evidence.
Anyways, it was reported back in July (http://thedirty.com/2011/10/exclusive-quentin-tarantino-buys-overdose-footage-and-ruins-blake-penningtons-life/) that Quentin Tarantino had acquired all of the footage with the intent on releasing it as a film entitled Upper. The big conspiracy surrounding the footage is that one of the alleged identified teens is Blake Pennington, apparently someone famous.
After a series of backlash, rumor has it that Tarantino is getting cold feet and backing off releasing the film - yet other unknown parties are pushing to get it released. The questions are: is this real footage and are they actually trying to be bury it, or is this some sort of brilliant viral stunt?
Footage (trailer?) - http://vimeo.com/31471778
Link - http://thedirty.com/2011/11/the-trailer-quentin-tarantino-doesnt-want-anyone-to-see/
Anyways, it was reported back in July (http://thedirty.com/2011/10/exclusive-quentin-tarantino-buys-overdose-footage-and-ruins-blake-penningtons-life/) that Quentin Tarantino had acquired all of the footage with the intent on releasing it as a film entitled Upper. The big conspiracy surrounding the footage is that one of the alleged identified teens is Blake Pennington, apparently someone famous.
After a series of backlash, rumor has it that Tarantino is getting cold feet and backing off releasing the film - yet other unknown parties are pushing to get it released. The questions are: is this real footage and are they actually trying to be bury it, or is this some sort of brilliant viral stunt?
Footage (trailer?) - http://vimeo.com/31471778
Link - http://thedirty.com/2011/11/the-trailer-quentin-tarantino-doesnt-want-anyone-to-see/