Quentin Tarantino is a director who loves to talk… and talk… and talk. He has a reputation of talking up his next projects only to leave them on the shelf or else dump them in the bin. His recent success, Inglourious Basterds, was a project he had been talking about ten years ago. And now, during the promotion of said war flick, Tarantino is now claiming that he is going to revisit Kill Bill. In a press conference in Mexico, Tarantino has said he plans to revisit the violent life of The Bride ten years later (both in reality and in the narrative). This does coincide with a previous Tarantino claim that the daughter of one of The Bride’s victims would eventually seek revenge on her.
But the real question is whether Quent will follow through. Let’s not forget that several years ago he had planned to make a sort of prequel to Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs, following the early lives of the Vega brothers (John Travolta’s character in Pulp, Michael Madsen’s in Dogs), which never emerged. Not only that, but Tarantino once talked about producing several anime sequels to Kill Bill which also never saw fruition. Hell, we still haven’t seen the promised special edition Kill Bill DVD collection that joins the two parts into one “Bloody Affair” (though QT has said he’s back working on it).
There is, of course, the other issue of whether we really need to see another Kill Bill film. The first films were excellent but also distinctly closed by the end of Volume 2. Is a sequel so necessery? Is Tarantino brimming with new and exciting ideas, or is he out of ideas for new, original films and just furthering his career by retreading old territory? Regardless, Tarantino plans to make one film before the Kill Bill follow-up, and is considering a Western or a “30’s-style gangster” film.
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