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Puzzle #783: Al Pacino → Michael Fassbender

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

Al PacinoAl Pacino
Michael FassbenderMichael Fassbender

On Wednesday, October 7, 2026, the daily puzzle asked players to link Al Pacino and Michael Fassbender. The two have never been credited in the same movie, so there's no one-move answer. But 11 actors have worked with both of them in their best-known films, so it can be done in just 2 moves.

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The shortest solution

Show the 2-move answer (spoiler)
  1. Al Pacino as Marvin Schwarz in Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019), which also stars Brad Pitt as Cliff Booth.
  2. Brad Pitt as LT. Aldo Raine in Inglourious Basterds (2009), alongside Michael Fassbender as LT. Archie Hicox.

The full chain: Al Pacino → Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019) → Brad Pitt → Inglourious Basterds (2009) → Michael Fassbender.

Other ways to solve it

Show 3 more 2-move routes (spoilers)
  • Al Pacino → The Devil's Advocate (1997) → Charlize Theron → Prometheus (2012) → Michael Fassbender
  • Al Pacino → The Irishman (2019) → Anna Paquin → X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) → Michael Fassbender
  • Al Pacino → Donnie Brasco (1997) → Paul Giamatti → 12 Years a Slave (2013) → Michael Fassbender

About Al Pacino

Born
April 25, 1940 in New York City, New York, USA
Film career
1971–2026
Widely seen films
59 (films with a sizeable audience on TMDB)

Best-known films, which are often the quickest places to start a chain:

About Michael Fassbender

Born
April 2, 1977 in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany [now Germany]
Film career
2004–2026
Widely seen films
36 (films with a sizeable audience on TMDB)

Best-known films, which are often the quickest places to start a chain: