Quentin Tarantino planned a Reservoir Dogs/Pulp Fiction crossover movie, Michael Madsen reveals

Quentin Tarantino once planned a crossover spin-off movie based on characters from Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, actor Michael Madsen has revealed.

The film would have united Madsen’s Reservoir Dogs character Mr Blonde with John Travolta’s Pulp Fiction character Vincent Vega. While the pair never met on-screen, they have been confirmed by Tarantino as being brothers – Mr Blonde’s real name being Vic Vega.

A potential spin-off, which would have likely been released in the late 1990s if it came to fruition, would have been a prequel to both movies, as both Vega brothers were killed in their respective films.

It would have seen the pair working in the criminal underworld of Amsterdam.

“The picture was going to start out with the two of us being released from prison in different states,” Madsen told the Hollywood Reporter. “And we open up a club in Amsterdam.”

In Pulp Fiction, Vincent says he has just arrived in Los Angeles after time in Amsterdam.

While Madsen said he and Travolta got “too old” for the film, he did also reveal that Tarantino had suggested a further spin-off idea that would have been led by a younger pair of actors.

“He had come up with this idea that it would be the twin brothers of Vic and Vincent, who met after the deaths of their siblings,” he explained. “It was very complicated, but when Quentin starts discussing an idea, it’s very easy to go along with it.”

Madsen has been a long-time Tarantino collaborator, also working with him on Kill Bill, The Hateful Eight and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

He this week reenacted the famous ear-slicing scene in Reservoir Dogs to encourage social distancing.

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