[MusicManiac]

As your leader, I encourage you from time to time, and always in a respectful manner, to question my logic. If you're unconvinced that a particular plan of action I've decided is the wisest, tell me so, but allow me to convince you and I promise you right here and now, no subject will ever be taboo. Except, of course, the subject that was just under discussion. The price you pay for bringing up either my Chinese or American heritage as a negative is... I collect your fucking head. Just like this fucker here. Now, if any of you sons of bitches got anything else to say, now's the fucking time!


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Joe Utichi reports via FilmFocus.co.uk that Quentin Tarantino plans a wide U.S. theatrical release for Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair in the next few months. This is both halves of the Kill Bill saga, Vol. 1 (2003) and Vol. 2 (2004), stitched together into a single, glorious bloodbath, as Tarantino intended originally.



Says Tarantino in the Utichi interview:

"Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair is definitely getting a wide release; actually, that'll probably be the first movie that Miramax, under their new company, will be releasing theatrically, it's the Japanese version, that's why I call it that, you know, it should probably come out in the next few months. It's going to be NC-17 in America. We couldn't do that when Disney owned the place but now Disney's the fuck outta there we can do anything we want! It's gonna be off the hook!"
I heard a few months ago that the "complete" Kill Bill, with extras, might be released on DVD as early as this coming August. A new theatrical release and a new DVD amount to very exciting news for those of us who rank Kill Bill among the greatest action films of all time.

As far as the DVD Box set goes I own both Vol's 1 and 2 in the Best Buy Exclusive Casewrap Box. I would like the LOTR Special edition Box set that came out, very much like to see this shape up soon. Like SIN CITY, this is one movie that I absolutely adore theaterically speaking, it's not only vintage Tarantino, it's movie making bliss.

As with any Uncut, Director's Collection DVD Set I would expect this to not only have the added footage but extras, both versions of the film and all the tech/special goodies that they could possibly offer in this Bad Larry... I hope it comes soon.

Some projected Cover art is below:

VOL. 1



VOL. 2



Both Versions One Disc



Best Buy Exclusive Casewrap



Japanese Box Set Casewrap

This post has been edited by MusicManiac: 30 January 2006 - 02:28 PM

[Silent Bob]

I really hope that's fan-made cover art because...yuck. Something as epic and iconic as Kill Bill shouldn't get the crappy actor-photo-collage cover art treatment (neither should the Star Wars movies, that I'll gnaw on that bone somewhere else). It should get something striking and graphic and iconic - something like that first image you posted, or like the packaging of the Sin City special edition. But that's just me.

[MusicManiac]

I agree with what you said. I'm very anal about cover art on DVD's as well. The Star Wars thing bugs the shit out of me to no end as well. The first image would be cool.

This post has been edited by MusicManiac: 01 February 2006 - 08:46 AM

[Silent Bob]

I despise the Star Wars dvd art. I literally can't stand to look at them. I don't know how they could choose those boring photo collages when each movie had such a great, painted poster to go with it. Whoever ran that department of Fox's marketing should be kicked in the nuts.

[Iambaytor]

It's still not as bad as the cover art for The Matrix Revolutions which matched the shittasticness of the movie quite nicely. Anyway, I HATED Kill Bill Vol.1 but loved Vol.2, why? Michael Madsen and David Carradine good actors. Vivica A. Fox, Darryl Hannah, and Lucy Liu bad actors. Not to mention half of Vol.1 was one long as kung fu scene, and call me old fashioned but I feel that there's only so many ways that you can hit a guy before it stops being interested. Anyway, I'm tempted to buy this, if there's actually commentary to explain what the HELL Quentin Tarintino was thinking at certain points in the movie, only THEN will I consider this.

[Reverend Jax]

As for the Star Wars cover art: The guy named his second movie 'Attack of the Clones'? You don't think he was going for at least a little level of 50's space serial camp? The cover art matches the atrocious dialogue like a tux on a penguin. I think people just don't get Star Wars, particularly the prequels. It's not The Godfather or fucking Apocalypse Now, it's Star Wars and it's really easy to tear apart if you need something more than just a fun flick. That's kinda the point. Star Wars came out at a time when all movies were trying to be ironic, and being so simple adn straight forward made it ironic in the late seventies.

This post has been edited by Jack's Meandering Thoughts: 02 February 2006 - 10:39 PM

[Reverend Jax]

So I read this on Wikipedia:

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Special NC-17 rated edition with both films edited into one

A special NC-17 rated edition of Kill Bill which will include Volume 1 and Volume 2 edited as one film ("Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair") will be released on 4 DVDs on December 25, 2007. The film will run fully at 247 minutes (4 hours and 7 minutes).[13]

Which used this Amazon.com page as a source.

The amazon page doesn't have much more information than the wikipedia snippet, but the most important part, the release date, is not on that page. December 25th is a Tuesday, the day almost all CDs, DVDs and video games go on sale. Either way, I'm stoked.

[Acalis]

This should be very interesting. I'd definitely love to check it out just to see what extras they have added to the movie.

Oh also I read somewhere (on imdb.com I think) that Tarentino originally had plans to do a sequel movie which the main plot was the now-grown-up daughter of Vernita Green was searching Beatrix out to get revenge for killing her mother, but that somehow those plans never fully materialized or were dropped. Anyone have anymore info on this?

[Silent Bob]

Acalis, on Oct 14 2007, 04:13 PM, said:

Oh also I read somewhere (on imdb.com I think) that Tarentino originally had plans to do a sequel movie which the main plot was the now-grown-up daughter of Vernita Green was searching Beatrix out to get revenge for killing her mother, but that somehow those plans never fully materialized or were dropped. Anyone have anymore info on this?

What he said about it was that if he made the sequel he wouldn't make it for another decade or so, so that Uma Thurman would be the right age. Anytime I've heard him mention it, he's always said it like "wouldn't this be a cool idea for a sequel?" rather than any actual concrete plans to make one. I'd say the odds of it happening are about as slim as the odds of ever seeing The Vega Brothers onscreen.

[Reverend Jax]

It would have involved Sofie Fatale inheriting Bill's empire and training Vernita Green's daughter. It would also have Kido's daughter playign a role. He said he was thinking of shooting a few scenes to get the actors at a young age, but it's unconfirmed if he ever shot any footage with any of those actresses. He was also interested in anime prequels. Tarantino says alot of things though.

[Acalis]

Reverend Jax, on Oct 14 2007, 05:18 PM, said:

It would have involved Sofie Fatale inheriting Bill's empire and training Vernita Green's daughter.

That would be quite difficult, given she has no arms... (Unless she got like some really cool prosthetics or something).

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It would also have Kido's daughter playign a role. He said he was thinking of shooting a few scenes to get the actors at a young age, but it's unconfirmed if he ever shot any footage with any of those actresses. He was also interested in anime prequels. Tarantino says alot of things though.

The anime concept would be interesting. Kinda like what the Wachowskis did with Enter The Matrix.

This post has been edited by Acalis: 15 October 2007 - 01:41 PM

[Lycaon]

Acalis, on Oct 15 2007, 01:40 PM, said:

That would be quite difficult, given she has no arms... (Unless she got like some really cool prosthetics or something).

She wouldn't have to do it personally. Also, I don't remember, did she show any fighting skills in the movie?