Who are the two male stars in Pulp Fiction?

John Travolta in a still from Pulp Fiction.

New Delhi: A document that appears to be director Quentin Tarantino's cast wish list for Pulp Fiction has been posted on Reddit and is causing quite a flutter because it seems that John Travolta would not have played Vincent Vega if the actor the part was written for had been cast instead.

Hitman Vincent Vega was the role that resurrected John Travolta's career from Hollywood oblivion and fetched him an Oscar nomination. The role was written for Michael Madsen, however, who starred in Quentin Tarantino's 1992 debut Reservoir Dogs. As it happened, Mr Madsen was committed to the Kevin Costner-directed Wyatt Earp and so Mr Travolta was cast in his place. Other possibles were Gary Oldman - whose name appears against every male role on the typed sheet but didn't eventually play any - Alec Baldwin and Michael Keaton.

Several actors ended up playing the characters that were written for them - notable, Tim Roth as robber Pumpkin and Amanda Plummer as his girlfriend Honey Bunny. Dressing gown-wearing drug dealer was written for John Cusack and went to Eric Stoltz, the second choice. Patricia Arquette was the front runner for Lance's wife Jody but her sister Rosanna was eventually cast. Johnny Depp, Nicolas Cage and Christian Slater were on the wish list for more than one role - none made it to the film.

Image courtesy: imgur.com The list above doesn't appear to name several major characters in the film - Mia Wallace who was played by Uma Thurman, or Jules, Butch and Marcellus played respectively by Samuel L Jackson, Bruce Willis and Ving Rhames.

The comments section in the Reddit thread, however, throws us this version of the list which appears to indicate that the role of The Wolf was filled by the actor it was written for - Harvey Keitel. (Also Read: John Travolta Returns to TV With Crime Series)

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Pulp Fiction, released in 1994, was Quentin Tarantino's second film and was nominated for seven Oscars. It is considered the career-making movie for actors Samuel L Jackson and Uma Thurman, who would later star in Kill Bill: Volumes 1 and 2.

This list of Pulp Fiction actors includes any Pulp Fiction actresses and all other actors from the film. You can view trivia about each Pulp Fiction actor on this list, such as when and where they were born. To find out more about a particular actor or actress, click on their name and you'll be taken to a page with even more details about their acting career. The cast members of Pulp Fiction have been in many other movies, so use this list as a starting point to find actors or actresses that you may not be familiar with. Be sure to also check out our list of other shows and movies like Pulp Fiction.

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The actors who Quentin Tarantino originally wanted for the main roles in Pulp Fiction have been revealed.

Tarantino’s crime film is one of the most acclaimed films of the 1990s, but if the director went with his first options, it would have looked very different.

John Travolta and Samuel L Jackson star in the film as Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield, but according to the rough cast list (originally shared on Twitter by author Don Winslow and others), both actors were second choices for their respective roles.

When it came to jotting down who he wanted for the characters, Tarantino opted for Michael Madsen, with whom he’d already worked on Reservoir Dogs in 1992, and Laurence Fishburne.

He also wrote down Jackson for the role of Marcellus Wallace, a character who was ultimately played by his first choice – Ving Rhames.

The iconic Jack Rabbit Slim’s twist contest, a gnarly heroin overdose and some pawn shop bondage — Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 neo-noir crime drama, Pulp Fiction, has it all. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1994, where it scored the festival’s highest honor, the Palme d’Or. When it hit theaters Oct. 14 of that year, it became the top-grossing film at the box office in its debut weekend and ultimately the first indie film to surpass $100 million at the domestic box office (worldwide it raked in more than $213 million).

"Tarantino's lined up a fine cast to play his assorted snotwads, grimeballs, sleazoids, small-timers, druggies and bulletheads in this 1990s version of a down-and-dirty 1940s pulp fictioner, the kind Dash Hammett and the boys used to crank out," wrote The Hollywood Reporter film critic Duane Byrge in his review, originally published May 23, 1994.

Pulp Fiction became an instant cult classic and has held onto its Hollywood film prestige and place in the heart of pop culture. Now, 25 years later, The Hollywood Reporter takes a look back at the film’s cast — and what they've been up to in the years since the movie's release — and reminisces about Royales with cheese and extreme violence set to the tune of 1960s surf rock.