Remember “Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair” DVD that Quentin Tarantino has promised for oh… pretty much since “Kill Bill 2” hit theaters in 2004? (most recently he talked it up in January of this year)
Well, the director says as soon as promotion of “Inglourious Basterds” is over (probably September or later), he’ll concentrate on the finishing touches of the complete ‘Kill Bill’ DVD saga which includes the newly created anime sequences he’s been talking up for years. And apparently they’re actually done.
“I’m not going to monkey around with the movie itself, but we’ve actually done a whole new section for the anime as the last thing [we added]. I actually wrote a much longer script for the anime section during O-Ren’s revenge chapter. Remember the guy with the long hair that kills her father? It’s like, what happened to that dude? Well, I wrote it and it was the biggest, most elaborate thing I wrote—her taking him down.”
“This was when I thought ‘Kill Bill’ was going to be one movie. So already I thought a 20-minute anime scene [evolved from a seven minute sequence?] may not be the wisest move. So we didn’t have them do it, so they were relieved they didn’t have to do it because it was so big. [But] I actually showed it to Harvey Weinstein; I had the whole script written out shot for shot what it would be, so [I said], ‘Harvey, this literally would make it complete. This is everything I came up with and wrote when I wrote it.’ So Production IG just did it, and I just need to work with them a little bit and go over it with them—and I’ll do that once this is officially behind me.”
Production IG are an influential Japanese anime studio and production company behind some of the biggest titles such as “Ghost In The Shell.” So, a 2010 release for the ‘Whole Bloody Affair’? Sounds like it, but we wouldn’t be putting any money on it. Obviously Tarantino moves at a snails pace.
A theatrical cut DVD/Bluray release of Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s “Grindhouse” is reportedly also on the cards but Tarantino has admittedly “been lazy getting around to it,” so at his rate, that thing will probably be ready for DVD around 2013. [SciFiWire]
