Tarantino: ‘DJANGO UNCHAINED’ and ‘INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS’ are two-thirds of loose trilogy. Maybe.

Buried in dope movies this fall? I know I am. I’ve been cutting through them with my money-saber, splaying wants and desires across my bank account. If you’ve been so buried that you’ve forgotten that Django Unchained is dropping on the Day of Some People’s Lord, here is a neat reminder.

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Quentin Tarantino is well-known by fans as a guy who likes to construct inter-connected narratives. His characters and their relatives pass from one film to another, to the point where he’s got two “universes,” describing the real life of his general character set, and the films those people might go see. There are even a few characters (such as Harvey Keitel’s Winston Wolf, from Pulp Fiction) who can cross between universes.

So it isn’t a surprise to hear that Tarantino is thinking of his two most recent films,Inglourious Basterds and the upcoming Django Unchained, as two thirds of a loosely connected trilogy. But what does that mean for us?

Tarantino told Total Film,

Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained bespeak a trilogy. As different as they are, there is a companion piece quality. There might very well be a third one. I just don’t know what it is yet.

In addition to sharing Christoph Waltz as a major player, the two films both offer Tarantino’s own take on history, with World War II and slavery in the United States offering the films their respective historical background.