Now Mr Pujol says he will delay it while he negotiates with Hollywood's honchos.
But on November 16th, after 23 years in office, Mr Pujol will leave the stage.
Why has Mr Pujol, who faces regional elections in Catalonia in 1999, decided to stick with Mr Aznar?
Mr Pujol can point to some gains that have flowed from his time in cahoots with Mr Aznar.
He has even told the conservatives in Catalonia to vote against Mr Pujol's new law promoting the Catalan language.
He has also been cosying up to a small conservative Catalan party in coalition with Mr Pujol's lot in the regional parliament.
And their chief, Josep Duran i Lleida, would like Mr Pujol's job.
The next day, the current Catalan president and leader of Mr Pujol's party, Artur Mas, went to Madrid to ask for more fiscal autonomy.
The food grown here is used by some of Mexico City top restaurants, including Pujol, which some critics consider one of the top restaurants in the world.
Many Catalans evidently think Mr Pujol would be foolish to flounce out of his liaison at the centre when the economic going is so good.
After nearly 18 years in office, Mr Pujol's power is waning.
Plenty of Catalan businessmen, less nationalist than their poorer brethren, would be annoyed if Mr Pujol broke with Mr Aznar, with the economy in such good trim.
The answer, thinks Mr Pujol, is plain: when topics affecting Catalonia are at issue in Brussels, let Catalan spokesmen be there, as such, albeit within the Spanish delegation.
Jordi Pujol is a towering figure in modern Catalan politics.
More probably they will demand that ever more functions be handed to them, say others: look at Jordi Pujol, the longtime Catalan-nationalist premier (to borrow the Canadian word) of Catalonia.
As part of a new law to promote Catalan instead of Castilian Spanish, Mr Pujol has been trying to make cinemas show at least a quarter of their films in Catalan.
Mr Pujol says that an independent Catalonia - often called the "Germany of Spain", for its high GDP and industrial base - could play a role in turning around the image north Europe has of southern Europe.
Dr Rafael Rosell from the Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol in Barcelona, Spain, who led the research, said the findings suggested cisplatin-based chemotherapy should be the first treatment option, although paclitaxel and carboplatin was still a viable alternative.
For the first time for many years, the Socialist Party, under Pasqual Maragall, a former mayor of Barcelona, won more votes than Catalonia's conservative nationalists under their long-serving leader, Jordi Pujol, who nonetheless (because of the voting system) won more seats in the assembly.
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