Ever sinceKill Bill Vol. 1andKill Bill Vol. 2hit theaters a few months apart in 2003 and 2004, fans have been clamoring for directorQuentin Tarantinoto revisit this beloved classic withKill Bill: Vol. 3. While there are no official plans in the works for this long-awaited follow-up, the director recently toldVariety, while doing press forThe Hateful Eight, that he may in fact revisit his beloved character The Bride/Beatrix Kiddo (Uma Thurman) at some point in the future.Quentin Tarantinoadmitted that he wasn’t always keen on the idea of going back for another sequel, but now he has changed his tune.
“I’ve been very non-committal about it. I’m not committing to it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if The Bride made one more appearance before the whole thing is said and done. I am talking to Uma (Thurman) about it just a little bit. Some of the stuff that I’d written that never made it into the movie that maybe I could use. I’m thinking now, 13 years later, what would be going on with Sofie Fatale? What would be going on with Elle Driver? The thing that does attract me to the idea, and I wasn’t that attracted to it before, because I felt I said what I had to say, and I kind of liked the idea of Beatrix Kiddo living out the rest of her life in peace, to some some degree, I think Kill Bill is my most visionary movie. Not necessarily saying how good it is, but I think it’s a very vision-oriented movie, and I create this world that doesn’t exist. On planes, there’s holders for your samurai sword. Since KillBill, my work has veered more towards the literary, and perhaps less on the visual, to one degree or another. I think, maybe a good helping of viscera would be a nice thing to happen, at least at some point in my future.”
The director added earlier this month that he wanted to give Beatrix some time with her daughter, and give her a lot of time to find peace, which would be reflected in real time, and is one of the reasons a sequel hasn’t happened yet. This is all certainly good news for fans of this two-partaction saga, since, just a few years ago, thedirectorsaid he wasn’t interested in exploring genres he’s already tackled before. Perhaps he changed his mind after directing two Westerns in a row, withDjango UnchainedandThe Hateful Eight, which is currently playing in theaters.
While he stopped short of revealing any specific story details, there are a couple of possibilities that could be explored forKill Bill 3. You may recall that, inKill Bill Vol. 1, Vernita Green (Vivica A. Fox) is the first target of Beatrix Kiddo (Uma Thurman). After a brutal fight at Vernita’s home, Beatrix kills Vernita, in front of her young daughter, Nikki. Beatrix tells Nikki that if she ever wants revenge for the death of her mother, she’ll be waiting.
Quentin Tarantinohasn’t announced what his follow-up toThe Hateful Eightwill be yet, and while it seems he could use discarded material from his original Kill Bill scripts, he doesn’t have a full screenplay ready to go forKill Bill: Vol. 3quite yet. Do you thinkKill Bill: Vol. 3should be the filmmaker’s next movie? Chime in with your thoughts, and take a look at the filmmaker’s video interview below.
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