25 Things You Didn’t Know About Pulp Fiction

14. Roger Avary Wrote The First Material For The Movie

Though Quentin Tarantino is often cited as the sole architect of Pulp Fiction, he actually conceived the movie with the help of screenwriter Roger Avary, whose contributions won him a Best Original Screenplay Oscar alongside Tarantino.

Avary actually wrote the first material for what would eventually become Pulp Fiction way back in 1990, with the "divine intervention" missed gunshots fired at Jules and Vincent and Marvin's (Phil LaMarr) death being originally written by Avary for inclusion in Tarantino's script True Romance.

A lot changed before the script was locked, naturally, and before the film was released, Tarantino convinced Avary to take a "story by" credit rather than co-writer, so that Miramax could market the film as "Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino."

It's been speculated that the contention over Avary's contribution to the film's success led to them falling out, though in an interview years after the fact, Avary said that he was "enjoying the residuals" regardless.