First official trailer for Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair is released

Two decades after Kill Bill first sliced through pop culture, Quentin Tarantino’s bloody revenge saga, Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair is finally arriving the way he always intended. Lionsgate has unveiled the trailer for Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, a four-hour epic that fuses Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 into one seamless rampage of vengeance. The long-shelved cut will finally make its theatrical debut on December 5, marking the first time audiences can experience the saga as a single feature.

The release will roll out across major North American cities, with special 35mm and 70mm screenings crafted just for this occasion. The last time the complete version was shown was during a limited engagement at Tarantino’s own Vista Theater in Los Angeles last summer, projected from the director’s personal Cannes 2006 print, French subtitles and all. That rare screening also preserved the film’s traditional intermission between the two volumes, offering fans a taste of Tarantino’s full, unfiltered vision.

Originally conceived as one film, Kill Bill was divided into two releases to manage its colossal length. Vol. 1 arrived in October 2003, followed by Vol. 2 six months later, with the pair earning over $330 million worldwide. Tarantino’s combined cut first appeared at Cannes in 2006, then resurfaced for a brief run at the New Beverly Cinema in 2011 before disappearing again. Until now, Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair has remained the stuff of legend, one that fans will now finally get to experience again.

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This re-release of Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair adds something new to the films as well. The version hitting theaters includes an extended sequence never seen before. Fans can also expect to see the notorious House of Blue Leaves fight, the blood-soaked showdown with the Crazy 88, in full color for the first time. The original U.S. release was forced to cut to black-and-white mid-battle to avoid an NC-17 rating.

In the past, Trantino has also opened up on wanting to make a sequel of the film, starring Maya Hawke and Thurman as he once told The Hollywood Reporter,

“I think it’s just revisiting the characters 20 years late. 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, and the thing would be fucking exciting. I mean, Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah) is still out there, Sophie Fatale (Julie Dreyfus) got her arms cut off, she’s still out there. They all got Bill’s money. Gogo (Chiaki Kuriyama) had a twin sister, her twin sister could show up.”

Of course, the core of the story for Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair remains: Uma Thurman’s iconic performance as The Bride, left for dead after her lover and boss, Bill, played by David Carradine, ambushes her wedding rehearsal and steals her unborn child. Her journey through samurai showdowns, desert duels, and heartbreak has never looked sharper. With a seven-minute new sequence, restored footage, and Tarantino’s original pacing intact, Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair promises to be a cinematic event, a chance to finally see Kill Bill as it was meant to be seen.