Michael Madsen Chats About Quentin Tarantino's Vega Brothers Film That Never Came to Be

Quentin Tarantino is a special director who has a vision unlike any other. His movies are cult classics that have a huge following and really stand up over time. But there is a catalog of film ideas that he has never fully worked out because of one reason or another, and one of them was called Double V Vega. The movie idea was a prequel to two of his previous films, and would have told the story of brothers Vincent Vega, who was played by John Travolta in Pulp Fiction, and Vic Vega, who was played by Michael Madson in Reservoir Dogs.

Back in 2007 when he was still toying with the idea, Tarantino said of the project, “It actually would have taken place during the time Vincent was in Amsterdam, when he was running one of Marcellus’ clubs in Amsterdam. And Vic goes to visit him.” But then he would have had to have made the movie a lot earlier to pull off the actors looking much younger. So he also thought about it possibly being a sequel. This is a confusing concept, as each of these characters were famously killed in their respective movies. But Tarantino previously explained, “I actually came up with a way I could have done it, even being older and dead where they all had older brothers and both of their brothers got together because the two guys died. And they wanted revenge or something like that. But now, they [the actors] are too old for that…I gotta say, it’s kind of unlikely now.”

And Madsen recently commented on the spin he heard for the film while chatting with THR:

"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. It was very complicated, but when Quentin starts discussing an idea, it's very easy to go along with it." 

This sounds pretty complicated! But I think most Tarantino stories sound that way in concept or on paper. He has the full vision in his head, and it always comes together in the end. Madsen went on to tell a funny story about filming the movie Trading Paint last year alongside Travolta, where they played on the idea of being long lost brothers:

"We had a scene where we are at a big retirement party, and I walked up to John and he goes, 'I thought you were dead.' And I looked over at him and I said, 'Well, I thought you were dead,'" the actor recalls of the moment that got a big laugh on the set. 

Unfortunately, this idea is dead in the water now, but would you have liked to have seen some version of it on the big screen?

via: /Film