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Quentin Tarantino confirms 'Kill Bill, Vol. 3,' but who's left to kill?

Third installment would take place 10 years after 'Kill Bill, Vol. 2'

Published on Monday, Oct 5, 2009 By HitFix Staff
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Quentin Tarantino confirms 'Kill Bill, Vol. 3,' but who's left to kill?

Uma Thurman as The Bride in "Kill Bill, Vol. 1."

Credit: Miramax

During promotion for the first two "Kill Bill" films, creator Quentin Tarantino hypothisized that he'd like to return for a third installment that would take place 10 years afterward the second film ended.  Six years since Vol. 1 and a little over five years since Vol. 2, Tarantino has made waves by letting everyone know he hasn't abandoned his original plan.

Speaking during a press conference for "Inglourious Basterds" in Mexico on Saturday, Tarantino says he still plays to shoot "Kill Bill 3" in or around 2014.  According to Variety, the filmmaker said he'd also film a different picture inbetween.  He's currently contemplating a "re-imagining" of a number of genres including a Western or a '30s type gangster movie. 

"Kill Bill, Vol. 2" ended with The Bride (Uma Thurman) reunited with her baby and all of her targets killed or close to it.  Most speculate that "Copperhead's" daughter, who is spared in "Vol. 1," would be the most likely protagonist now that she's all grown up and no doubt has revenge of her own on her mind. Curiously, the "Bill" portion of the film would be difficult to incorporate even in flashbacks after the untimely death of David Carradine this past summer.

More questions surround who exactly would produce the new feature.  It's unclear whether this is a project the Weinstein's were allowed to keep the rights too when they left Miramax in 2005 or whether it would kick back to the recently gutted, but still kicking indie specialty label.  Needless to say, parent company Disney would hardly be adverse to making a sequel to a series that has already grossed $332 million worldwide.  Plus, the mammoth success of "Basterds" this summer ensures (at least for the time being) that Tarantino's reign in pop culture is hardly over.

Thurman will be seen in theaters later this month in the romantic comedy "Motherhood."

More on this story as it develops on HitFix.

Can you wait another 5 years for a third "Kill Bill?  Do you think it's still a good idea?  Share your thoughts below.

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    • Lucy said
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    • Jan 28, 10 at 11:27PM EST
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    • Brad Snell said
    • I remember reading about Quentin's plan to do a third installment of Kill Bill or at least another movie about "The Bride" 10 years after the first two were released. I'm hoping that it gets made. I'm a huge fan of the Kill Bill volumes and a third would be the best part three movie ever made. 5 more years of waiting for a two hour movie. Quentin won't and can't screw this up.
    • Nov 5, 09 at 09:54AM EST
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    • Chris said
    • Waiting 10 years means he's probably considering having The Bride's daughter be a focal point of the third. Elle Driver, may not be dead, but I doubt she'll be the driving antagonistic force. I'm thinking that Tarantino has more up his sleeve and that it'll have to do with the four years that the bride spent in a coma. I don't think that Copperhead's daughter will be in it. In fact I'm almost certain. Copperhead was not much of an assassin (compared to The Bride) and I'd think that after she was killed, her daughter and husband would move far away and start life anew. Elle is probably going to be the link from Part 2 to 3. I wouldn't be surprised if he killed off The Bride either. Not that I'd want to see that happen, but it's always a possibility. Who knows, there's five years to speculate and for Tarantino to pull together a script and he probably has a pretty clear idea of what Volume 3 will be about.
    • Oct 5, 09 at 10:04AM EST
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    • tony said
    • Grammatical/spelling errors dot this "article" like dog poop on a lawn. How can it be journalism? Lord Help Us.
    • Oct 5, 09 at 09:40AM EST
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