Quentin Tarantino has told fans they’re right about the links between his films and their characters (Picture: REX Features / Alamy / Myles Goode)

Quentin Tarantino has given his fans something to chat about by confirming there is a link between all of his movies.

The director has reacted to fan theories about his characters all being connected in some way, saying there are two distinctive types of ‘universe’ in which his films take place, layered together.

Tarantino told Dazed Digital: ‘There is actually two separate universes (sic). There is the realer than real universe, alright, and all the characters inhabit that one. But then there’s this movie universe.

‘So From Dusk Till Dawn, Kill Bill, they all take place in this special movie universe. So when all the characters of Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction, when they go to the movies, Kill Bill is what they go to see. From Dusk Till Dawn is what they see.’




This makes perfect sense as Uma Thurman’s Mia Wallace from Pulp Fiction is the star of a TV pilot about a female hit squad called Fox Force Five – involving all the other characters in Kill Bill.

You can watch a clip to see what we mean below.

But that’s not all. Tarantino also revealed there is a ‘realer than real universe’ link between a character in Inglourious Basterds and one in his new film, The Hateful Eight.

Tarantino revealed The Hateful Eight actor in question ‘was originally cast as that character in [Inglorious Basterds] but they weren’t able to do it due to a scheduling conflict.’

After a bit of research we’ve worked out that Tarantino is talking about Tim Roth, who plays Oswaldo Mobray or ‘English Pete Hicox’ in The Hateful Eight.

The Hicox link suggests Mobray is the great-great-grandfather of Archie Hicox, Michael Fassbender’s Inglourious character – and Roth himself has confirmed this.

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And both Roth and Fassbender couldn’t commit to the role of Colonel Hans Landa in Inglourious, so the role went to Christoph Waltz. Got it? Good.

We already know other Tarantino characters of old are from the same families.

Reservoir Dogs’ Vic Vega, played by Michael Madsen, is the dead brother of Pulp Fiction’s Vincent Vega, played by John Travolta.

Plus there’s Lee Donowitz from Tarantino’s collaboration with Tony Scott True Romance, is the son of Donny Donowitz, portrayed by Eli Roth in Inglourious Basterds.

And eagle-eyed Tarantinuts might have noticed all the characters smoke the same fictional brand of cigarettes – Red Apple.

A pack of Red Apple cigarettes (Picture: Horror Film Props)

Makes you want to go back and watch all of them back to back, doesn’t it?

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