Though it was spilt into two films released six months apart Kill Bill Vol 1 & 2 is now to be released as Tarantino originally intended as one big film to be titled Kill Bill The Whole Bloody Affair.
Collectively regarded as his fourth film the films earned over $334m at the box office and this new version has been tweaked and had new unseen footage. In this new epic version the cliffhanger at the end of Vol1 has been cut as has the recap at the start of Vol2. What is new will be an 7 1/2 minute animated segment and will be released in both 70mm and 35mm.
Tarantino said: “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. 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!”
This he re-edited version first appeared in 2011 at Quentin Tarantino’s own New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles but since then the film has remained in the vault for years since becoming that rumoured and much sought after version that’s much heard of but never seen. But the film only returned to cinemas this past summer, with his Cannes personal print, French subtitles and all, getting an hyped up and limited run at L.A.’s Vista Theatre which the director also owns. That run of the film did include an intermission between the first and second parts.
In a press re;ease Tarantino said, “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,”
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