Samuel L. Jackson said his contract with superhero entertainment company Marvel initially threw him for a loop, as it locked him in to star in nine films -- which made him question how long he'd have to be alive in order to complete the business agreement.

Samuel L. Jackson is generally known for playing a badass, first strongly associated with Quentin Tarantino films, and now over the past sixteen years, the MCU’s Avengers founder and former leader of S.

The Nick Fury actor joked he had no idea how fast the Marvel machine could grind through a nine-picture deal. Samuel L. Jackson has been in the movie business for a long time, but he'd never seen anything like his Marvel contract.

Samuel L. Jackson is still in shock at how fast Marvel got through his initial nine-picture deal. The actor, who has played Nick Fury in a dozen projects in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, looked back at some of his most iconic characters in a recent interview with GQ magazine.

Samuel L. Jackson says he didn't think he would live long enough to fulfill his nine-movie-long contract with Marvel Studios but was pleasantly shocked to see how fast the films actually got made. "I knew I had a nine picture deal when Kevin said,

Samuel L. Jackson finds it "crazy" how quickly he completed his nine-picture deal with Marvel as he expected to be tied to the franchise for decades.