The Bride is back in the trailer for Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair.
“Once upon a time around the year two double aught three,” Bill (the late David Carradine) says in a voiceover in the video, which dropped Friday, November 7. “There began a legend of bloody revenge.”
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair is not a new entry in Quentin Tarantino’s beloved franchise but is instead the complete story that combines Kill Bill: Volume 1 and Volume 2. The 4-hour unrated cut hits theaters on Friday, December 5, and will include a 15-minute intermission.
The trailer uses clips from both Kill Bill movies to show how the story was meant to be told in one sitting. The teaser kicks off with Uma Thurman’s character, The Bride, dressed in her iconic yellow outfit as she sits in a bar. The clip then cuts to several sword-fighting scenes, including the one where The Bride faces off against Lucy Liu as O-Ren Ishii.
In addition to Thurman and Liu, Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair’s cast includes Carradine, Vivica A. Fox, the late Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, Gordon Liu and the late Michael Parks.
Kill Bill tells the story of how The Bride, a former assassin, is left for dead after her former boss and lover, Bill, who is the head of the Deadly Vipers Assassination Squad, ambushes her wedding rehearsal. The Bride tells Bill she is pregnant with his child, and he shoots her in the head. After waking up from a coma, The Bride learns she is no longer pregnant and swears to get revenge on Bill and his assassins.
“I’ve killed a hell of a lot of people to get to this point,” The Bride declares in the trailer. “And when I arrive at my destination, I am going to kill Bill.”
On top of watching both Kill Bill installments in one sitting, there will also be new never-before-seen footage that did not make it into the first or second films.
When Tarantino created Kill Bill, he originally envisioned the martial arts film to be one movie. However, the director decided to split the project in two parts due to its extensive runtime. Kill Bill: Volume 1 runs just under two hours, while the follow-up is nearly two and a half hours. Kill Bill: Volume 1 premiered in 2003, while Volume 2 hit theaters the following year.
“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,” Tarantino said of his excitement for fans to experience the full film in theaters, per a press release. “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!”
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While Tarantino is revisiting the glory days of the original Kill Bill films, he has toyed with the idea of making a third movie. One thought he had was casting Thurman’s real-life daughter, Maya Hawke, to play her fictional child.
“I think it’s just revisiting the characters 20 years later,” the Oscar winner said during a June 2021 appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast. “Just imagining the Bride and her daughter B.B. having 20 years of peace, and then that peace is shattered and then the Bride and B.B. are on the run. The idea of casting Uma and casting her daughter, Maya, and the thing would be f***ing exciting.”
