We’ve waited six years for Quentin Tarantino to make a new movie. The iconic filmmaker has flirted with various ideas for his next project, but we never expected the next thing he’d put out into the world would have anything to do with Kill Bill.
The epic double-parter was a cultural sensation back in 2003 and 2004. While the violent martial arts revenge story at the heart of Kill Bill: Vol. 1 was incredible enough on its own, the sequel took things to a whole new level of blood-soaked brutality.
There have always been rumours of another sequel to follow on from Kill Bill: Vol. 2, but Tarantino insists that’s not going to happen. Still, if you’re a fan of his work, and, in particular, the tale of The Bride (Uma Thurman), you’re going to love what the director has done now.
Quentin Tarantino’s Unlikely Kill Bill Collaboration With Fortnite
Tarantino has finally been able to bring one of his wildest sequences to life. The only catch is that you have to play Fortnite, of all things, to see it all play out.
As per The Hollywood Reporter, Tarantino took a meeting with the folks at Fortnite to discuss some kind of collaboration. The chat went way better than he ever imagined, opening up a fascinating door for the filmmaker.
Speaking at a special Fortnite event in L.A., Tarantino explained: “I showed up to the meeting thinking that they would want to license characters, and they want to get my ideas about what could be a fun thing to do. But no, they had something else in mind.” Turns out, they wanted some kind of story that could last eight to 12 minutes, and Tarantino had the perfect idea.
To launch the new chapter on Fortnite, gamers and Tarantino fans were in dreamland as a project titled The Lost Chapter: Yuki’s Revenge premiered in the game on November 30. The animated story is lifted right from a draft of Kill Bill, and the only reason it never got used before, as Tarantino says, is that it was “too crazy, it was just too much action.”
Without spoiling too much, the story essentially sees Yuki – the twin sister of Gogo Yubari – tracking down The Bride to get revenge for killing her sister. If you remember Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Gogo was O-Ren Ishii’s (Lucy Liu) bodyguard, and one of the many victims taken down by The Bride in the chaotic first movie.
Kill Bill Has Finally Been Released As One Movie
For those who don’t play Fortnite, fear not: You can see Yuki’s Revenge in all its glory on the big screen this month. Tarantino is finally getting both the Kill Bill movies a theatrical release as one epic motion picture, with the animated sequence also included.
Aptly titled The Whole Bloody Affair, this cut of the two films has a whopping runtime of 275 minutes (including a 15 minute intermission) and is playing across thousands of screens in the UK and North America on December 5.
This is essentially how Tarantino always wanted the movie to be. Speaking to IndieWire in 2019, he said: “Technically we released it as two movies… but I made it as one movie and I wrote it as one movie... Frankly, the truth of the matter is, I don’t think it would’ve been as popular as a four hour movie.”
Indeed, when referring to his own body of work, Tarantino vehemently believes that he has only made nine films to date, counting Kill Bill as one project. That’s why movie number ten is so precious to him, and why we’re being made to wait to find out what that will be.
When Will We See Quentin Tarantino’s Final Film?
Since the release of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood in 2019, Tarantino has been linked with a handful of projects that never came to be.
He originally was attached to make an R-rated Star Trek movie that would be set in the 1920s, loosely adapting an iconic episode from the original series titled ‘A Piece of the Action’. That’s already a great episode of sci-fi television, but putting Tarantino’s violent spin on it would have been truly brilliant. However, he decided he didn’t want that to be his final film.
Then, it seemed like development was racing ahead on a project called The Movie Critic. Sony was on board, as were actors including Brad Pitt. Rumours suggested the likes of Tom Cruise, Margot Robbie, and John Travolta may also be involved. According to The Hollywood Reporter, though, this all fell apart amid rewrites and indecision, before Tarantino eventually pulled the plug
So, at this moment in time, no one knows what Tarantino’s swan song will be. Even the man himself may have no idea. He’s put a lot of pressure on himself to get it right, though if anyone can live up to the hype, it’s Quentin Tarantino.
