Comics+Movies: Modesty Blaise/Tarantino

Modesty Blaise is the title of an action-adventure/spy fiction novel by Peter O'Donnell which was first published in 1965, featuring the character Modesty Blaise which O'Donnell had created for a comic strip in 1963

 Modesty Blaise

Cover of the first Modesty Blaise American edition by Doubleday, a rendition of which was featured in the film, Pulp Fiction. Art by Jim Holdaway

Quentin Tarantino (born 1963) is an Academy Award- and Palme d'Or-winning American film director, screenwriter and actor. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an indie filmmaker whose films used nonlinear storylines and stylized violence

Vincent (JohnTravolta) reads Modesty Blaise in the final scene

The American first edition by Doubleday (illustrated at left) was featured prominently in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction (the hit man played by John Travolta is shown reading the book). Reportedly the director used a mock-up of the book for filming, rather than an actual copy. Tarantino has stated his interest in directing a Modesty Blaise film on several occasions, but to date the closest he's gotten was lending his name to a 2003 made-for-video production, Quentin Tarantino Presents: My Name Is Modesty. wiki®