Kill Bill 3 Release Date, Plot Spoilers: 'The Whole Bloody Affair' to Get Limited Release 2015?
Fans of the "Kill Bill" films have been clamoring for a third installment since the last film premiered in 2004. Since then, Quentin Tarantino has hinted at two possibilities for the spin-offs, one being an anime back story of the Divas, and the other being a spin-off in the future where Vernita Green's (Vivica A. Fox) daughter, Nikki, goes on a quest for revenge against The Bride (Uma Thurman).
However, it seems like both story lines have been scrapped in favor of combining both "Kill Bill" films into one movie, with some extra scenes thrown in the mix. Tarantino has always said that "Kill Bill" was meant to play as one whole movie, and he screened it as such in Cannes in 2003. But because the film ran for nearly four hours, The Weinstein Co, split it into two films, with "Kill Bill: Volume 1" opening in 2003, and "Kill Bill: Volume 2" in 2004.
Tarantino revealed his plans about several films that he's currently working on, including the update on "Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair" at the Dynamite Entertainment panel in Comic-Con San Diego.
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"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-haired guy …The big sequence was her fighting that guy. I.G.[the Japanese Anime Studio] who did 'Ghost in the Shell' said that 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 –'ok'. It was my favorite part but it was the part that you could drop," he told Collider.com.
"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," Tarantino continued.
"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," the famed director added.
"Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair" was actually shown in one screen in 2011, according to Slashfilm.com. It was screened for a little less than two weeks at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles.
"Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair" is slated for a limited release in 2015.
