KILL BILL: Quentin Tarantino Brings THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR Back To Theaters In December
Some of the best news to arrive on a gloomy weekday during a crummy government shutdown went public on Wednesday with the return of Kill Bill to theaters on December 5. Lionsgate is now proffering fans of Tarantino’s 2003 ode to kung fu and jidaigeki cinema and spaghetti western thrills with a full cut of both volumes edited together dubbed Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, which had long been on the backburner even as Tarantino himself showcased it to select festival and event screening audiences.
Uma Thurman and the late David Carradine lead the cast of a sweeping, salty revenge tale that follows The Bride, a former assassin back from near-death and now on a unyielding quest for revenge for the murder of her groom and friends. The films also star Vivica A. Fox, Lucy Liu, Daryl Hannah, Julie Dreyfus and Chiaki Kuriyama, along with appearances by screen laureates like Gordon Liu and Kenji Ohba, as well as late co-stars Michael Madsen, Michael Parks and Sonny Chiba. A version of 2004’s Kill Bill: Vol 2 also contains a deleted scene that features co-star Michael Jai White.
The films were also incumbent with the kind of high-end fight action that inaugurated Hollywood’s glow-up on the action front with sequences by Rob Moses, and Hong Kong action legend Yuen Woo-Ping (The Matrix Trilogy) shepherding the action direction. The result is a delectable array of violent sequences with high-wire stunts and action, gratuitious violence and gore akin to Shaw Brothers heyday, and choreography performed aptly by Thurman along with stunt double, the venerated Zoe Bell, in their contribution to immortalizing The Bride’s killer caliber for martial arts fans.
The trades are reporting that both films will be woven together with newer edits and additions.
“The Whole Bloody Affair” removes the cliffhanger ending from “Kill Bill Vol. 1” and the recap opener of “Kill Bill Vol. 2,” bringing the pair together as a single cohesive storyline. The release will also include a never-before-seen, 7 1/2-minute animated sequence.
Tarantino also added the following to Wednesday’s announcement:
“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 wrote in a statement on the 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!”
Read more at Variety.
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