Here comes The Bride! Quentin Tarantino’s blood-and-gore classic Kill Bill is heading back to theatres in December in a first-time theatrical run of Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, Tarantino’s personalized edit of both volumes into one film as he originally envisioned.
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 was released near the end of 2003 with Vol. 2 coming out a few months later. Tarantino had wanted to make the films into one film, but Miramax fought the idea as they felt the 4-hour-plus runtime would be too long for audiences to sit through at the theatre, eventually compromising to split it into two parts.
The films follow the anonymous Bride, a former assassin who was nearly killed by her former employer and her fellow assassins and went into a coma as a result of her injuries. Five years later, she wakes from her coma and begins a roaring and bloody quest of revenge against those who wronged her, leaving Bill for very last.
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair has held screenings before, but only in special events often hosted by Tarantino himself or private theatres, most notably at Cannes. This occasion marks the first time it will have a nationwide release from Lionsgate for 70mm and 35mm screens beginning on December 5th.
“I wrote and directed it as one movie — and I’m so glad to give the fans the chance to see it as one movie,” Tarantino said of the announcement. “The best way to see Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair is at a movie theater in glorious 70mm or 35mm. Blood and guts on a big screen in all its glory!”
This edit will remove the cliffhanger ending of Vol. 1 and the brief recap at the start of Vol.2 as well as the colour change to black and white during the Bride’s fight against the Crazy 88. It will also have a brand new element with a never-before-seen 7-and-a-half-minute animated sequence that seems to be separate from the anime sequence detailing O-Ren Ishii’s backstory.
Kill Bill features a cast that includes Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, Gordon Liu, Michael Parks and David Carradine.
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair will release on December 5th.
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