Original Pulp Fiction Script Had Jules Kill The Diner Robbers
Pulp Fiction actor Samuel L. Jackson has recently revealed that the original script for the film contained a scene in which his character killed the diner robbers seen at the beginning and end of the movie. Pulp Fiction was the second feature film written and directed by now Hollywood legend Quentin Tarantino. The film tells several interconnected stories, including narratives following two gangsters, a boxer, and a pair of lovebird diner robbers. Pulp Fiction was a major hit at the time of its release in 1994 and was nominated for seven Oscars, winning Best Original Screenplay. The film has since gone on to become regarded as a modern classic.
Jackson has had a long working relationship with Tarantino. Over the course of the director's career, Jackson has appeared in six of Tarantino's films. However, his role as Jules in Pulp Fiction is perhaps his most iconic and well-remembered outing in a Tarantino film. Jules is a gangster who, after witnessing what he claims to be a minor miracle, decides to change his ways and leave his life of crime. At the end of the film, Jules single-handedly stops the two diner robbers and lets them go free, admitting that before his enlightenment, he would have killed them both. It is the culmination of his entire character arc throughout the film.
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In a recent interview on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Jackson has revealed that in Pulp Fiction's original script, the audience actually would have seen Jules kill the robbers. According to Jackson, in the original script, before Jules lets them go, the audience would see an imagined scene in which Jules would «shoot him in the face and shoot Honeybunny off
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