Of all the films Quentin Tarantino has worked throughout his career, one particular project still remains somewhat “unfinished”. That project is Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, and over the last few days the director has been talking up a possible limited released of the film in 2015.
The complete Kill Bill is a longer version of the two-parter released in cinemas back in 2003 and 2004, which includes a 30-minute anime sequence, and does exist, having screened back in 2011, before disappearing again. This weekend at Comic-Con, Tarantino was in attendance promoting his new comic book Django/Zorro, and was asked about the status of the project, and here is what he said:
“What’s going on with that is originally back when Kill Bill was going to be one movie, I wrote an even longer anime sequence. So you see in the movie [O-Ren] kill her boss but then there was that long hair guy… The big sequence was her fighting that guy. I.G. [The Japanese Anime Studio] who did Ghost in the Shell said we can’t do that and finish it in time for your thing. And you can’t have a thirty-minute piece in your movie. I said okay. It was my favorite part but it was the part you could drop. So we dropped it and then later when I.G. heard we were talking about doing Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair — they still had the script so without even being commissioned, they just did it and paid for it themselves. It’s really terrific. Anyway, The Weinstein Company and myself were talking about actually coming out with it sometime, not before the year is out, but within the next year with limited theatrical engagement as well.“
We wait with bated breath to see if this will become a reality, but it seems a closer reality than it has been in the past. Meanwhile Tarantino’s next film The Hateful Eight is set to go before the cameras in early 2015.
Originally published July 29, 2014. Updated April 12, 2018.
