During last week’s special screening of “The Lost Chapter: Yuki’s Revenge” (as part of a tie-in with the popular video game “Fortnite“) at Tarantino’s own Vista Theater in Los Angeles, director Quentin Tarantino, speaking with Entertainment Weekly, teased two other potential animation ideas, including another”Kill Bill” expansion project featuring Bill’s (played by David Carradine) origin, that’s if the busy fella ever gets around to doing them (notably, many of Tarantino’s ideas don’t end up coming to fruition or ends up pivoting to something else).
“I’ve got other things to do right now, but I had a whole Kill Bill idea in my mind when we were doing it, and then I was so wiped out from doing the movie,” the director told the audience at the short’s screening at the Vista. “I like the idea of a Bill origin. A story of Bill, about how Bill became Bill and the three godfathers that made Bill: Esteban Vihaio, Pai Mei, and Hattori Hanzō. Will I live long enough to do that? That remains to be seen.”
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In those previous two “Kill Bill” chapters, we see Bill’s collection of father figures, one a pimp who fostered his love of cinema, another one a surly Chinese martial arts master who can kill with his bare hands, and a self-reflective legendary swordsman/swordsmaker from Okinawa, now living a quiet life running a tourist-friendly sushi restaurant.
That second idea being the infamous “Vega Brothers” crossover he’s talked up for decades, which would be about criminal siblings Vic Vega (played by the late Michael Madsen) from “Reservoir Dogs” and Vincent Vega (played by John Travolta) from “Pulp Fiction.” The two are canonically brothers, but given their deaths in their respective movies and ages, making a live-action iteration of that crossover idea was nearly impossible, even more so after Madsen’s recent passing.
“I could see some world between this 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,” Tarantino mused about other possible film ideas that could morph into animated projects.
Perhaps animation might be how Tarantino ends up completing various unrealized projects from his established cinematic universe instead of doing them all in live-action. Something like his never-made “Kill Bill 3,” after “Yuki’s Revenge,” feels like a really good bet to make either as an animated feature or even a limited series (as Tarantino has talked up wanting to do television once he’s completed his tenth and final feature).
Speaking of “Kill Bill,” this week will see the release in theaters of “Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair,” a combination of the two movies as originally intended by the director, distributed by Lionsgate on December 5.
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