Ever since I saw Natural Born Killers at a friend’s house in high school, I’ve considered it one of the best ‘90s movies as well as one of director Oliver Stone ’s greatest films. Watching Mickey and Mallory Knox, played brilliantly by Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis, go on a cross-country road trip expressing their love for one another through acts of murder and mayhem is a wild and transfixing experience like no other. So, you can imagine how I felt way back when as I discovered that Quentin Tarantino , who wrote the original screenplay, was no fan of Natural Born Killers , to put things mildly.
Over the years, the director of movies like Pulp Fiction , Reservoir Dogs , and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood has voiced his displeasure with the movie and the changes Stone made to the material. It’s not one of the biggest Hollywood feuds, but the story behind it all is still rather fascinating. Quentin Tarantino Wrote Natural Born Killers, But Moved On To Reservoir Dogs Back before Quentin Tarantino made a name for himself as one of the brightest young filmmakers in Hollywood, he got his start selling screenplays.
True Romance , directed by Tony Scott in 1993, and Natural Born Killers were two of the most notable. Sometime in the early ‘90s, before making his directorial debut with Reservoir Dogs , Tarantino penned the Natural Born Killers screenplay, which explains all those Tarantinoverse Easter eggs present throughout the movie When speaking with Roger Ebert in 1.