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Quentin Tarantino’s Original Cast List For Pulp Fiction (1993)

Pulp Fiction

 

 

This is Quentin Tarantino’s Original Wish List for the Cast of Pulp Fiction.

 

n an alternate universe version of Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, Eddie Murphy, not Samuel L. Jackson, might have played Jules, the bible-spouting hit man. His partner-in-crime, Vincent Vega, might have been played by Gary Oldman, not John Travolta. And the role of Mia, played memorably by Uma Thurman in black bangs, could have been played by Debra Winger or perhaps Phoebe Cates. Documents 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. They, of course, were ultimately cast but Tarantino was willing to entertain Johnny Depp and Patricia Arquette. One wonders how Depp’s otherworldly weirdness would have translated as a low level street tough. On the other hand, Tarantino’s first choice for Lance, Vincent Vega’s bathrobe-sporting drug dealer, was none other than John Cusack. That would have been amazing. 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. Eddie Murphy was tapped as a possible Jules. Miramax liked Nicolas Cage or Johnny Depp (really?) for Butch, the samurai-sword wielding boxer. Bruce Willis, who played the role, wasn’t even on the original list. 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. Strangely, the studio didn’t think Johnny Depp would have been right for the role.

 

 

You could have been watching Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction (1994), starring Eddie Murphy as Jules Winnfield, Gary Oldman as Vincent Vega, Phoebe Cates as Mia and playing Lance, the delightful John Cusack.

So much for the ifs and maybes. The fact is that Tarantino got his first choice to play the lovestruck restaurant robbers Pumpkin and Honey Bunny. Bruce Willis (he played Butch) may want to look away now…

 

Pulp Fiction cast list

 

 

 

The notes also say:

THE WOLF
Harvey Keitel***
Wrote part for Harvey, if unavailable other possibilities:
Warren Beatty

 

Via Reddit, via OpenCulture

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