The Bride is back!
Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair – a combination of his Kill Bill duology – will be getting its first national theatrical release this December.
According to Variety, the release will feature both 35mm and 70mm prints being exhibited in “all major markets.”
In a released statement, 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!
Tarantino’s Kill Bill started as a single film. But when it became apparent during the editing process that it would have a runtime of approximately four hours, the studio asked him to cut the movie into two volumes. The new Whole Bloody Affair edition removes the cliffhanger ending from Vol.1 and the recap scene that opens Vol. 2. The release will also include a never-before-seen 7 1/2-minute animated sequence. There is no word as to whether a 3 1/2-minute scene featuring Michael Jai White which was cut from Vol. 2 has also been restored.
Although this is the first time that Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair is getting a national release, the film has been seen in various one-off screenings at various venues over the years. Tarantino first screened the compiled edition at Cannes in 2006. In addition to various special screenings, the director has also run it the New Beverly Cinema in 2011 and the Vista Theater this past summer. He owns both venues.
In 2014, Tarantino announced his intention to get the Whole Bloody Affair edition of Kill Bill into theaters the following year, but those plans never materialized.
You can read our review of the Whole Bloody Affair from when we saw it at one of those special screenings in Philadelphia here.
