According to Quentin Tarantino, he was named after a popular character Burt Reynolds played on the classic TV Western Gunsmoke.

In an exclusive excerpt from the revealing new book ‘The Making of Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood,’ the film’s director and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie explain how they took L.

The Whole Bloody Affair, the complete single film by Tarantino, hits theaters December 5, 2025, with a new 7.5-minute animated sequence.

“At the time I saw Joe, it was easily the ugliest movie I’d ever seen,” Tarantino shared. “A spot it held till four years later when I saw The Last House on the Left. Frankly, it was the squalor of the apartment the two junkies at the beginning lived in that creeped me out the most. In fact, it made me a little sick to my stomach.”

The auteur was honored by the festival with its Vanguard Award and reflected on his career. When asked if he really will retire after this 10th movie, he said, "That's the plan. We'll see."

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Quentin Tarantino says the commercial failure of Grindhouse, his double-feature with fellow filmmaker Robert Rodriguez, hit pretty hard at the time.

The Whole Bloody Affair' will be released in December 2025 and combine 'Vol. 1' and 'Vol. 2' together as they were originally intended.

Quentin Tarantino is known for writing roles in his scripts specifically for actors to play, but needless to say, that didn’t apply to Pulp Fiction when he was on the hunt for the perfect gimp.