Two year ago Quentin Tarantino piqued the interest of film fans everywhere when he promised two new anime companion films to “Kill Bill,” one supposedly about the origin of The Bride and the other about Bill himself.
We don’t know what’s happened to the story of The Bride, but the other animated film is going to blow you away, insisted star Uma Thurman.
“His anime stuff is strong,” she smiled.
We say we don’t know what happened to the story of the Bride, by the way, because Thurman claims to have never recorded a voice-over for the anticipated project.
“It has nothing to do with me,” she said. “It has to do with another character. You’ll have to see.”
That screams Bill to us. But the best part? It looks as if we’ll get to “see” real soon, perhaps as part of an expanded DVD release, Thurman teased, indicating that the short will be part of a larger re-release for “Kill Bill.”
“Right now he’s putting the two films together with an intermission with an added anime sequence he had already written,” she said of the ongoing saga of Beatrix Kiddo. “So additional stories are in there, in animation.”
Sounds pretty groovy to us? What about you? Would you plunk down some coin to buy an expanded “Kill Bill” set? Looking forward to more animation from Tarantino? Sound off below.
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:33 pm
YES, omg I can’t WAIT to see this Animated Anime from QT I LOVE HIM!
way to go :D!
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Okay Tarantino stop delaying the Whole Bloody Affair and just give us the damn dvd. We don’t care about some stupid animated show about Kill Bill. We just want the whole Bloody Affair!!!
April 24th, 2008 at 5:36 am
AWESOME. I’ll wait even longer if it means new material. New Kill Bill material = heaven. I hope it’s about Esteban Vihaio.
April 24th, 2008 at 8:04 am
I wonder if that rumor about the anime segment for Vernita Green will come into fruition?
April 24th, 2008 at 9:04 am
So if it’s about Bill, is Carradine doing the voice?
April 24th, 2008 at 10:33 am
I never bought the Kill Bill DVDs because I had a feeling it would be re-released as one movie. I’m definitely buying this one.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Aren’t we all over Kill Bill. Could we please have a PROPER Grindhouse release some time soon? Please?
April 24th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
It’s about Yuki Yubari. Trust me.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
I have avoided buying Kill Bill Vol. 2 in hopes that Tarantino would do this very thing. I will gladly plunk down some coin for an expanded film. Splicing the films together with an intermission and additional material is an excellent way to do it. I’m sure the intermission will have a ’70s groovy feel to it.
April 24th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Kill Bill is possibly the most overrated film of the last 20 years. Just one boring fight scene after another with characters yuou couldn’t care less about. The only film possibly more overrated than this borefest is Grindhouse and I used to be a big Tarantino fan.
April 24th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
I was always into Kill Bill until I found out it had not to do with getting Hillary elected.
The BoogRat
April 24th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Hey, what about the Vega Brothers (Prequel) Flick, i want the backstories of Vincent Vega & Mr. Blonde dammit!!!!!! in lee of kill bill, how about the revenge flick of vernita green’s daughter, oh wait, that child actor has to grow another 10 years or so for it to work..really, id love to see that happen, beatrix is retired in some shack in asia, here comes vernita green’s daughter, with sword in hand…boooyaka!!!!!
peace.
April 24th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
That’s really cool!!! Two awesome movies w/ an intermission and an anime film? Who could have more?
April 24th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Bob Digi-Quentin cancelled that Vega brothers flick a few years ago.
May 2nd, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Would you plunk down some coin to buy an expanded “Kill Bill” set? Hell f*cking yeah! “Kill Bill” is not the full masterpiece it was meant to be unless it is put together as one (with intermission if QT likes.) ‘The Whole Bloody Affair’ was really meant for the Japanese market with the blood spray fests in crimson red. and would seem to be a collision of smashing KB1 and KB2 together to make a LP. However, I was always interested in the original story flow that was in the mind of the mad crazy genius director. Revenge is a dish served cold to getting lost in the forest not knowing how you got in WAS the facinating concept for me. While I admire both KB1 and KB2 separately, there was a huge missing mood transition from KB1 to KB2, and I do believe QT always knew this. ‘The Whole Bloody Affair’ was never the ONE “Kill Bill” film. I have been waiting for the ONE, and Uma may have just wet my appetite with anticipation of the ONE “Kill Bill” film I’ve been waiting for (I own the “Kill Bill Vol 1″ and “Kill Bill Vol 2″ DVDs.)