She wrote, ‘You don’t have to do this, if the money situation is too much to overcome. “Stacey was a great friend of the project, and she wrote Pat a letter, sang my praises, and said, ‘We’ll send you the script.’ She laid it on thick: ‘We think Quentin could be another Kubrick or David Mamet.’ These were her words. She knew Lucas from clearing songs for The Fisher King. Tarantino said that an introduction was brokered by Stacey Sher, who most recently produced the upcoming Aretha Franklin film Respect and co-produced the Academy Awards and such films as Erin Brockovich and Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight and Django Unchained and was EP on Pulp Fiction. Nothing about that scenario seemed promising, but I needed that song.” ‘ At that moment, not only was this a dinky little movie, but who knew if it would be good or if it would even see the light of a projector bulb? We had no money, and were asking for a song that would be played during a torture scene where a guy gets his ear cut off.
When I wrote that script and when I was in preproduction, I wanted ‘Stuck in the Middle with You. Nobody wanted to monkey around and mess that up.
Back in the ‘90s, the big cash play for a hit song was to be part of a commercial, where you could get $150,000 or $200,000. EMI owned the rights to the Stealers Wheel song ‘Stuck in the Middle with You ,’ but we had no money.
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The film was not guaranteed a theatrical release before I started making the movie it could have been a straight-to-video movie. “This was way before Miramax, when the film was financed by Live Entertainment, the video arm of Carolco Pictures. “She was a genuine hero of Reservoir Dogs,” Tarantino told Deadline. Quentin Tarantino On His 'Once Upon A Time In Hollywood' Novel, Retirement, Fatherhood, And Other Great Tales: Deadline Q&A From left: Steve Buscemi, Christopher Penn, Michael Madsen (back), Kirk Baltz and Harvey Keitel in ‘Reservoir Dogs’ Everett Collection After all, this was way before Pulp Fiction, when all Lucas had to judge by was his script and the knowledge that Gerry Rafferty’s hit song might be indelibly linked to a brutal torture scene. It was a shocking, career-launching moment for the filmmaker, who still sounds a bit surprised that fortune smiled on him when Lucas said yes. Tarantino suggests you cannot hear that song even now and not think of Michael Madsen dancing around a kidnapped police officer trussed to a chair, as Madsen dances around him in menacing fashion, cutting off his ear and planning to set him aflame. While I wait to get more details from her distraught family, Quentin Tarantino asked to memorialize Lucas and express his forever gratitude to her taking a chance on an unproven filmmaker and granting rights to the Stealers Wheel song “Stuck in the Middle with You “ for use in his directorial debut Reservoir Dogs. EXCLUSIVE: Pat Lucas, the former EMI Music executive who was a longtime friend to filmmakers she licensed songs to for their films, has died after a long battle with cancer.
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