Kill and Kill Again: Tarantino’s Two-Part ‘Kill Bill’ to Play as the ‘Whole Bloody Affair’ in Special Screening

Lionsgate is giving The Bride another chance to walk down the aisle.
On December 5th, Lionsgate will show the restored version of the Kill Bill saga in theaters for one night only. Titled Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, the version is the one director Quentin Tarantino wrote and directed, before succumbing to pressure from the studio to cut the lengthy epic into a two-part movie.
The full version will screen in 70mm and 35mm formats and removes the cliffhanger ending from Kill Bill Vol. 1 and the recap at the beginning of Kill Bill Vol. 2. Connecting the two halves is a previously unseen, seven-and-a-half minute animated sequence. Lionsgate anticipates the film will play in all major markets as either a 70mm or 35mm presentation.
In a press release issued Wednesday, Tarantino touted the restored version, saying āI wrote and directed it as one movie ā and Iām 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 theatre in Glorious 70mm or 35mm. Blood and guts on a big screen in all its glory!ā
The Kill Bill saga, released as two films in 2003 and 2004, stars Uma Thurman as The Bride, who seeks revenge on Bill, her former boss and lover, played by David Carradine, and his gang, the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, after he betrays her and leaves her for dead.
Once she awakens from a coma, she takes on a series of enemies, mostly one at a time. The cast of rogues includes Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, Gordon Liu, Michael Parks, Julie Dreyfus, Chiaki Kuriyama and Shin’ichi Chiba.

The restored cut of Kill Bill was shown in Cannes in 2006. The 258-minute version also restored the color to the Crazy 88 scene where The Bride dispatches a horde of assailants in The House of the Blue Leaves. To get the movie into theaters with an R rating rather than an NC-17 designation, Tarantino changed that scene to black and white to get approval from the MPAA.


