Article MDZV Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction cast wishlist is leaked online

Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction cast wishlist is leaked online

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Documents published on Reddit hint that John Travolta, Bruce Willis and Uma Thurman were not Quentin Tarantino's first choices for cult movie

Michael Madsen, not John Travolta, was Quentin Tarantino's first choice to play Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction, and Eddie Murphy was considered to play Jules Winnfield, according to new documents leaked via Reddit.

The two hand-typed sheets of paper also suggest that Uma Thurman was not even in the original running to play gangster's moll Mia Wallace, with Virginia Madsen, Marisa Tomei, Patricia Arquette and Phoebe Cates all named ahead of her. Meanwhile, John Cusack was Tarantino's first choice to play Vincent's drug dealer Lance, the role that eventually went to Eric Stoltz; and Matt Dillon, Sean Penn, Nicolas Cage and Johnny Depp were all ahead of Bruce Willis for the role of boxer Butch.

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