Jonathan Crow is a Los Angeles-based writer and filmmaker whose work has appeared in Yahoo!, The Hollywood Reporter, and other publications. Quentin Tarantino’s Handwritten List of the 11 “Greatest Movies” Quentin Tarantino Lists the 12 Greatest Films of All Time: From Taxi Driver to The Bad News Bears Quentin Tarantino’s Top 20 Grindhouse/Exploitation Flicks: Night of the Living Dead, Halloween & More Strangely, the studio didn’t think Johnny Depp would have been right for the role. And mob clean-up man The Wolf, played with an off-kilter decorousness by Harvey Keitel, could have gone to Warren Beatty or Danny DeVito. Bruce Willis, who played the role, wasn’t even on the original list. Miramax liked Nicolas Cage or Johnny Depp (really?) for Butch, the samurai-sword wielding boxer. Eddie Murphy was tapped as a possible Jules. Many of the studio’s approved casting choices for the movie, seen here in a fax also appearing in the same Reddit post, are much stranger. On the other hand, Tarantino’s first choice for Lance, Vincent Vega’s bathrobe-sporting drug dealer, was none other than John Cusack.
One wonders how Depp’s otherworldly weirdness would have translated as a low level street tough. They, of course, were ultimately cast but Tarantino was willing to entertain Johnny Depp and Patricia Arquette. This is a list of characters with speaking roles appearing in Quentin Tarantinos widely noted 1994 Pulp Fiction.
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And the role of Mia, played memorably by Uma Thurman in black bangs, could have been played by Debra Winger or perhaps Phoebe Cates.ĭocuments about the movie recently surfaced on Reddit, offering a fascinating glimpse into the early creative discussions for the hugely influential movie. In Tarantino’s wish list, which you can see above, he states that he wrote the roles of Pumpkin and Honey Bunny, the would-be Bonnie and Clyde of the family dining restaurant circuit, with Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer in mind. In Pulp Fiction, he was cast as Pumpkin, a criminal who holds up the diner that the two main characters were taking a break and grabbing some breakfast in. He had been a cast member of Reservoir Dogs, like Harvey Keitel. His partner-in-crime, Vincent Vega, might have been played by Gary Oldman, not John Travolta. Tim Roth was another actor who had already worked with Tarantino. Jackson, might have played Jules, the bible-spouting hit man.
In an alternate universe version of Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, Eddie Murphy, not Samuel L.
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