Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Afair is skipping cinemas in Australia altogether, it seems and going straight to digital, just the way Quentin Tarantino would hate it.
As spotted by Peter Walkden, the movie is set for a February 17 digital release, as seen below. Up until this point, I had been holding out hope that it might receive a proper theatrical release from Lionsgate, but that isn’t happening.
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The film is a four-and-a-half-hour combined effort of Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and Kill Bill: Vol. 2, which Tarantino originally conceived as one film, but had to be split for studio heads. The filmmaker has always thought of the film as the ‘4th film from Quentin Tarantino‘ rather than counting it as two films.
There’s some re-shuffling in the film’s structure a little bit, moving a cliffhanger line from the end of Vol. 1 out of the picture to save a reveal, and there’s some new stuff as well including addition animated O-Ren Ishii sequences, and the ‘House of Blue Leaves sequence’ where The Bride takes on the Crazy 88 is now in colour, not black-and-white.
Are you planning a big afternoon to watch Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Afair when it releases next week? Let me know in the comments section below.
