Captain Marvel concept art shows Nick Fury with Samuel L. Jackson’s Pulp Fiction hair. With $1.2 billion grossed at the worldwide box office, the superhero movie starring Brie Larson as Marvel’s Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel continued the MCU’s dominance while helping establish a new female heroine for the superhero franchise. Captain Marvel would of course also play a role in Avengers: Endgame, and is expected to play an even bigger role in future MCU films.

Though the epic action of Captain Marvel was a big part of the movie’s success, so too was the chemistry between co-stars Larson and Jackson, as Danvers and Fury formed an unlikely bond after the former’s arrival on earth. In order to make Jackson’s pre-Avengers Fury come to life, filmmakers employed deaging technology using Jackson’s ‘90s film appearances as reference points. The effect was incredibly convincing as Jackson portrayed a younger take on Fury – with both his eyes still intact (at least for awhile).

In concept art shared by artist John Staub on Instagram, it’s revealed that Jackson’s younger Fury at one point might have sported a very different look inspired by one of the actor’s most iconic roles, that of Bible-reciting hitman Jules Winnfield in Quentin Tarantino’s groundbreaking masterpiece Pulp Fiction. See Fury about to strike down with great vengeance and furious anger in Staub’s art in the space below:

In addition to a different hairdo, the art gives Fury an electrically charged glove to use as a weapon against the story’s extra-terrestrial bad guys. Ultimately, filmmakers would decide to ditch the glove while Fury was given a more clean-cut look. Carol Danvers herself looks much as she did in the finished film.

Of course, the character of Jules in Pulp Fiction would become one of the most memorable of Jackson’s career, in no small part because of his memorable look. The role in Tarantino’s film would earn Jackson his only career Oscar nomination, though he would ultimately lose out to Martin Landau for his own unforgettable performance as Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton’s Ed Wood.

Though it might have been amusing to see Jules Winnfield’s look resurrected for a young Nick Fury, filmmakers probably made the right decision by giving the character a more low-key and business-like appearance given the nature of Fury’s role as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. Ultimately too, giving Fury a look so reminiscent of a specific and familiar Jackson role would have been more distracting than anything else. And frankly there were already enough ‘90s callbacks in Captain Marvel without shoehorning in yet another one, and a very on-the-nose one to boot. At the end of the day, it’s probably best that Staub’s fusion of Fury and Jules remained as concept art alone.

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Source: John Staub/Instagram

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