This headline might be a touch deceiving. See, a prequel to Jackie Brown is in the works.. but it’s just an adaptation of an Elmore Leonard book to which Jackie Brown (nee Rum Punch) was an in-universe sequel.
The book is The Switch, and it is about the Jackie Brown characters played by Samuel L Jackson and Robert DeNiro in their younger days, which means recasting the roles. That probably makes sense as The Switch is super indie at the moment, with just a script (by Dan Schechtner, a newbie, and Michael Siegel, who wrote Be Cool) and Elmore Leonard on board. They’re currently looking for a director and financing.
Apparently Tarantino has given this his blessing, even though it wouldn’t really have anything to do with his films. Still, it would be fun to see if The Switch, while taking place years before Jackie Brown, could work in a cameo on the level of Michael Keaton’s Ray Nicollette, who crossed between that film and Out of Sight.
6 comments
It would be cool to see Keaton, but I think I remember reading something about the difficulty QT or Soderbergh had getting Keaton to play the same character in a different movie made by different studio… But I could be wrong
we need more movies based on Elmore Leonard's work…
I always thought SWAG would make a good Leonard adaptation. I remember reading it as a teen and picturing James Woods and Nicolas Cage as the leads.
we need less movies written by the guy who wrote Be Cool…
Clicking through to that Joblo article reminds me why I go to CHUD in the first place. Uninformative piece of shit article didn't even bother mentioning both books were written years before Jackie Brown was made.
The Switch was five times the book Rum Punch was…I always thought it was weird that QT didn't make it first.
Comments are shown as archived from the original site; new comments are closed.