Two of director Quentin Tarantino’s most popular and successful movies, Kill Bill Vol. 1 and Kill Bill Vol. 2, are merging back into one large 4-hour movie as first envisioned. This longer, uncut version will arrive in theaters nationwide in December with 70mm and 35mm showings in some select locations.
On October 1, Lionsgate and Tarantino announced plans to combine both volumes of Kill Bill into one large movie. Technically, the director behind Pulp Fiction and Django Unchained has shown a version of Kill Bill Vol 1 and Vol 2 edited together at past events. But the Whole Bloody Affair will be the first time that general audiences around the country will get a chance to see the two action-packed revenge movies starring Uma Thurman like this.
“I wrote and directed it as one movie — and I’m so glad to give the fans the chance to see it as one movie,” said Tarantino. “The best way to see Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair is at a movie theater in glorious 70mm or 35mm. Blood and guts on a big screen in all its glory!”
The Whole Bloody Affair arrives in theaters over 22 years after Kill Bill Vol. 1 was first released in 2003. That gory martial arts movie told the first half of the tale of Thurman’s Bride, who seeks revenge after a group of assassins ambushes her wedding and tries to kill her. Originally, Vol. 1 ended with a cliffhanger ending that was resolved in Kill Bill Vol. 2, released the following year in 2004. And that movie started with a recap of what happened in the first film. Both the recap and the cliffhanger have been removed from this version to create a more seamless one-film experience. This new version also includes a new seven-minute animated sequence.
Tarantino’s Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair arrives in theaters on December 5. It has a runtime of around 4 hours and 18 minutes.