Pulp Fiction

“The worst thing ever written. It makes no sense. Someone’s dead and then they’re alive. It’s too long, violent and unfilmable.” – Columbia TriStar Executive.

Pulp Fiction, written by Roger Avery and Quentin Tarantino definitely had their fair share of rejections with Pulp Fiction. Tarantino struggled for five years as a writer prior to any success at all. In addition to Reservoir Dogs having it’s struggles as well, True Romance was rejected by all the studios in town at one point too.

Due to the heavy heroin use in the movie, most studios in town didn’t want to touch the project with a ten foot pole. The word on the street about how many studios passed on it made finding a backer quite difficult.

After Harvey Weinstein at Miramax fell in love with the screenplay, he got the film funded and it went on to win the Palme D’or at Cannes. The script also won an Academy Award.