Quentin Tarantino’s KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR Is Getting a Theatrical Release with 70mm and 35mm Presentations
Here comes The Bride. After years of waiting, Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair is finally set for its first nationwide theatrical release.
The long-rumored project, which combines Kill Bill Vol. 1 and Kill Bill Vol. 2 into one epic feature, will hit theaters on December 5th through Lionsgate with both 70mm and 35mm presentations scheduled across major markets.
“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,” Tarantino said in a statement.
“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!”
Unlike the split release fans got back in 2003 and 2004, The Whole Bloody Affair eliminates the cliffhanger ending of the first volume and the recap opener of the second, streamlining the saga into a single cohesive story.
On top of that, audiences will be treated to a never-before-seen seven-and-a-half minute animated sequence that has been locked away until now.
Tarantino had always envisioned Kill Bill as one four-hour feature, but the studio divided it into two films during editing. The gamble paid off at the box office with the combined installments pulling in over $330 million worldwide and solidifying the films as a cornerstone of Tarantino’s career.
While the re-edited version premiered at the Cannes Film Festival back in 2006 and had a handful of screenings at Los Angeles’ New Beverly Cinema in 2011, it’s remained elusive ever since.
That rarity turned The Whole Bloody Affair into something of a cinematic holy grail for Tarantino fans. This past summer, the director briefly brought his personal Cannes print, complete with French subtitles, to L.A.’s Vista Theater, which he owns, but the run was short and exclusive.
Now, fans everywhere finally have the chance to watch the revenge-fueled saga the way Tarantino always intended.
Uma Thurman’s Bride on the big screen, unleashed in full bloody fury, in 70mm or 35mm, is exactly the kind of theatrical event cinephiles have been dreaming of.