Fans of KILL BILL have been waiting over ten years for this news. Quentin Tarantino has revealed that the long teased combined version of his revenge/martial arts/grindhouse/samurai/kung fu epic is finally going to be released in North America.
During his panel at Comic Con where he revealed that THE HATEFUL EIGHT is back on track as well as discussed his Django/Zorro comic, Tarantino explained the long road KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR has had, which all began with the decision by the Weinsteins to release the film as two volumes instead of one four hour epic.
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 [plus] 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.
So, from the sounds of it we may see a limited run of KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR before the end of 2015 as well as the extended Blu-ray release of the movie. As a big fan of both volumes of KILL BILL, I cannot wait to see how it plays with the newly added anime sequence. Hopefully we get more concrete dates soon.