Quentin Tarantino's duology Kill Bill: Volume 1 and Volume 2 has just been added to Netflix, reigniting speculation about whether we'll get to see a third instalment.
The filmmaker's double bill about the bloody revenge of The Bride (Uma Thurman) has landed onto the streamer for subscribers in the UK and Ireland.
The two movies were originally released within six months of each other in 2003 and 2004. Since then, Tarantino has often touched upon the possibility of a third chapter focusing on Vernita Green's daughter, Nikki.
Judging by his 2021 comments regarding a threequel, it sounds like plans for a third film have been scrapped.
"I originally thought I would do three Kill Bill movies, one every ten years," the director said at the time on The Big Picture podcast (via The Playlist).
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"Uma will be 10 years older with each new one. And also, I'll do an anime movie that follows this aspect of the Bride when she was with the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad.
"And then I'll do a whole animation movie that will be the origin of Bill and his three Godfathers [Hatori Hanso, Pei Mei, and Esteban Vihaio]."
Explaining the reason they never happened, he added: "OK, well, I f***ing killed myself on Kill Bill, went around the world, I don't want to think about that shit anymore."
The same year, Tarantino said he could cast Thurman's real-life daughter, Stranger Things star Maya Hawke, in a potential third Kill Bill movie.
"I think it's just revisiting the characters 20 years later," he said on the Joe Rogan podcast in 2021 (via The Hollywood Reporter).
"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 [Thurman] and casting her daughter, Maya [Hawke], and the thing would be f**king exciting."
In 2022, Thurman also responded to sequel rumours, saying a sequel wasn't "immediately on the horizon".
"I can't really tell you anything about it," she said on the The Jess Cagle Show. "I mean it has been discussed over the years. There was real thought about it happening, but very long ago. I don't see it as immediately on the horizon."
A third Kill Bill movie seems unlikely at this point, while Tarantino recently confirmed his hotly-anticipated tenth and final feature, The Movie Critic, won't be happening either.
Speaking on the Church of Tarantino podcast, the filmmaker addressed the similarities with Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood. Despite the two films not being connected, he called The Movie Critic a "spiritual sequel" to his ninth movie and "too much like [it]".
Tarantino weighed in on transforming present-day Los Angeles into 1969 Hollywood without CGI for Once Upon a Time... and suggested that the process would be similar to craft 1977 LA for The Movie Critic.
"It was something we had to pull off [in Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood]. We had to achieve it. It wasn't for sure that we could do it. … The Movie Critic, there was nothing to figure out," he said.
"I already kind of knew, more or less, how to turn LA into an older time. It was too much like the last one."
Kill Bill: Volume 1 and Kill Bill: Volume 2 are streaming on Netflix in the UK and Ireland.
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Stefania is a freelance writer specialising in TV and movies. After graduating from City University, London, she covered LGBTQ+ news and pursued a career in entertainment journalism, with her work appearing in outlets including Little White Lies, The Skinny, Radio Times and Digital Spy.
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