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What happened between him and Travolta?


Tarantino resurrected Travolta and the results were incredible. He worked with ‘Jules’ countless times after Pulp Fiction but not ‘Vincent’, anybody know why not?

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I’ve heard rumors that QT found Travolta to be a creep and refused to associate with him after a while. But I also know QT tried bringing Travolta back for From Dusk Til Dawn and Jackie Brown but Travolta passed, and QT also debated making a movie about the Vega Brothers but gave up on the project in like 2015. So maybe they just never aligned for the right project again.

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"QT found Travolta to be a creep and refused to associate with him after a while"

IF that's true, that's absolutely laughable considering Tarantino defended Roman Polanski, and not only didn't cut ties with Harvey Weinstein but actually said "I knew he did some of those things".

"QT tried bringing Travolta back for From Dusk Till Dawn"

According to John Travolta, he wasn't interested in From Dusk Till Dawn even before Pulp Fiction.
This was the timeline (again according to Travolta).

He was having lunch with Travolta and was talking about two projects he had coming up (PF and FDTD). He offered Travolta FDTD, presumably the George Clooney role, Travolta said he wasn't interested because he had no interest in vampire films, but PF seemed like an interesting role. Tarantino said he'd make a good Vincent but he already had Vincent lined up for Michael Madsen. Then Tarantino discovers he can't get Madsen because he couldn't get out of doing Wyatt Earp, so Travolta was then cast.

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