Tarantino still planning to release uncut Kill Bill DVD

Kill Bill Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 were, respectively, pretty damn awesome in their own right, but it's hard not to wonder what it would've been like had Quentin Tarantino released them together, as he originally planned.

Tarantino split the films up in 2003 due to pressure from Miramax after the studio felt it wouldn't be able to attract enough of an audience to recoup the film's cost (especially with a four-hour action flick). That decision inevitably led to rabid anticipation of a special-edition DVD where the film could be shown as it was originally planned. In fact, an uncut version of the film screened at the Cannes Film Festival (the differences of which are documented here).

Dubbed Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, the DVD has been rumored to be nearing release for ages, even popping up on Amazon.com. But there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel. Tarantino recently confirmed the uncut version's existence (but provided no release information), sure to come as a sigh of relief for those rabid fans.

His statement (via /Film): "We’ve actually added some things to it. We did a whole little chapter that I wrote and designed for the animated sequence, that we never did, because we figured, back when it was gonna be one big movie, it was going to be too long, so we didn’t do it. So when we were talking about re-releasing it, they asked is there anything you can put in, and I said no I put everything in there, but…there’s one sequence that we wouldn’t even have to shoot! So we got together with Production IG and did it, and it’s really cool. So it’s this little seven minute sequence, it’s really cool, it’s in the O-Ren chapter."

The reason it's not done yet? Well, Tarantino is a busy guy and is finishing up Inglourious Basterds with Brad Pitt. (Incidentally, that film was rumored to be split up in two at one point as well. Tarantino is a man of excess, obviously).

Seeing how long it took to get solid details on The Whole Bloody Affair, those of you hoping for the rumored Kill Bill 3 and 4 might need to wait a while. Until 2018, to be exact, for now. 

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