10 Supporting Movie Characters Who Deserve Their Own Film

10. Winston Wolf - Pulp Fiction

Harvey Keitel’s fast talking fixer has been given the chance at another life in a sense, but Tarantino’s creation deserves a life beyond some mildly amusing insurance adverts. Though he only makes a brief appearance towards the end of Pulp Fiction, the character is given such a breath of life by the writing, acting, and reactions to his presence that there’s scope for far more exploration.

In Pulp Fiction, he turns up, scrubs a crime scene, teases John Travolta and Samuel L Jackson, then disappears, but the impact he leaves is indelible. Harvey Keitel exhibits a lightness of touch here that his career choices rarely allow for, and he sells the superheroic Wolf perfectly - if you’d accidentally murdered a criminal associate, you’d call him too.

Keitel has proven that he can slip back into the role, and age would be no obstacle were he to rehash the character (indeed Keitel has looked the same age for about 30 years now). A series of light hearted caper films in which the wisecracking man of mystery saves the bacon of various inept hitmen could be just what we need.