Quentin Tarantino has an idea in mind for a potential animated prequel to his Kill Bill movies.
The director revealed his thoughts on what could be done with the franchise while at the Los Angeles premiere of Yuki’s Revenge — a short film that Tarantino and Kill Bill star Uma Thurman partnered with Fortnite to create.
According to a report from Entertainment Weekly, Tarantino’s positive experience working with that style of animation has led him to consider two other long-gestating projects, including a Kill Bill prequel and a story tying together his other classics, Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs.
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“We’ll see,” said Tarantino during a Q&A session at the Vista Theater. “I’ve got other things to do… I have a whole Kill Bill idea in my mind, but it was wiped out.”
“I like the idea of a Bill origin,” the director continued. “And the three godfathers that made Bill: Esteba Vihaio, Pai Mei, and Hattori Hanzo. Will I live long enough to do that? That remains to be seen.”
Tarantino also mentioned that he could find “some world between [Yuki’s Revenge] and Japanese anime that I could find some happy medium or, you know, between the things that I couldn’t physically do, like say the Vega Brothers movie, or something like that.”
The filmmaker was referring to his previous vision for exploring the origin story of Vincent Vega (played by John Travolta in Pulp Fiction) and Vic Vega (played by Michael Madsen in Reservoir Dogs).
“I don’t think I took it far enough for a story, but I had a premise,” Tarantino said in a 2019 interview with CinemaBlend. “It would have taken place in the time that Vincent was in Amsterdam. Remember in Pulp Fiction, he had just come back from Amsterdam, and he was telling the whole story? … At some point, in his two-year stay in Amsterdam, running some club, Vic shows up to visit him. And it would have been their weekend.”
Yuki’s Revenge premiered in Fortnite on November 30th. In an explanation of the short film, Yuki’s Revenge is described as “a dream of a Kill Bill chapter that never made it to the silver screen.”
Thurman expressed her support for the short film at a launch event, saying, “It’s really moving. It’s really great, and I think it’s something meant to be.”
A new edit of the entire saga, Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, arrives in theaters on December 5th. It reworks the two original films, Kill Bill: Volume 1 and Kill Bill: Volume 2, into one full-length, fully unrated movie that features brand new footage. Running four hours, the film features an animated sequence and slight changes to parts of the film, such as Tarantino dropping the black and white motif for the Crazy 88s fight.