Quentin Tarantino‘s new bladder-busting version of Kill Bill has a trailer and release date.
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair unites 2003’s Kill Bill: Vol 1 and 2004’s Kill Bill: Vol 2 as a nationwide theatrical release for the first time. The film also includes a new and never-before-seen anime sequence (trailer below).
The film’s run time is well over four hours — 281 minutes — but that thankfully includes a 15-minute intermission.
The Lionsgate release will be exclusively in theaters starting Dec. 5.
Tarantino’s revenge epic stars Uma Thurman as The Bride, “left for dead after her former boss and lover Bill (David Carradine) ambushes her wedding rehearsal, shooting her in the head and stealing her unborn child. To exact her vengeance, she must first hunt down the four remaining members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad before confronting Bill himself.”
Tarantino has toyed with the idea of a Vol. 3 over the years. The concept would pick up two decades after Vol. 2 and a period of peace for The Bride and her daughter, B.B. Kiddo. Tarantino said he would cast Thurman’s real-life daughter, Maya Hawke, and the two would be fleeing from assassins.
“I think it’s just revisiting the characters 20 years later,” the Oscar winner said of the hypothetical film. “Just imagining the Bride and her daughter B.B. having 20 years of peace, and then that peace is shattered and then the Bride and B.B. are on the run. The idea of casting Uma [Thurman] and casting her daughter, Maya, and the thing would be fucking exciting. I mean, Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah) is still out there, Sophie Fatale (Julie Dreyfus) got her arms cut off, she’s still out there. They all got Bill’s money. Gogo (Chiaki Kuriyama) had a twin sister, her twin sister could show up.”
Yet no sequel is expected at this point given Tarantino’s plan to end his career with a tenth yet-to-be-announced project that isn’t expected to revisit the Kill Bill universe.
