Pulp Fiction, another crime movie but this one told in a non-linear style.
Tarantino has stated he will retire after making 10 movies, so he chooses his projects and casts carefully, and there’s always a lot of expectation around them. Like many other directors, Tarantino has built his own list of recurring collaborators, with big names like Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman, but there are many others that have yet to work with the controversial director, while there are some others that have decided to turn down the opportunity to do so, sometimes even more than once, as happened with Sylvester Stallone.
Sylvester Stallone’s career on the big screen began in 1969 in small roles in a number of movies, and his big break arrived in 1976 when he played Death Proof, but Stallone turned down both offers for different reasons.
Based on the novel Rum Punch by Elmore Roland, Death Proof, his half of the Grindhouse project with Robert Rodriguez. Death Proof follows Stuntman Mike as he murders young women with modified cars he claims are “death-proof”, but just to him. Stallone told Tarantino that there was “no way” he was going to play Stuntman Mike as he has two daughters and the character’s hobby is “putting teenagers in his car and smashing them into a wall”, which didn't feel right to him.
Turning down roles in Jackie Brown and Death Proof wasn’t a big loss for Sylvester Stallone, as on the years they were released, he appeared in the movies Cop Land, The Good Life, and the years before and after Death Proof he returned to two of his most iconic roles: Rocky Balboa and John Rambo. Only time will tell if Sylvester Stallone will get to work with Quentin Tarantino in the director’s supposed final movie, but he might have to make a very interesting offer to him if he wants him to the cast.
