Behold, the Bloody Return of ‘Kill Bill’ to Theaters Next Month

If you need something to look forward to this holiday season, Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill duology is being re-released in theaters as a combination film, The Whole Bloody Affair.

Beginning December 5, the “single, unrated epic” can be seen in either 35 or 70mm film and feature a never-before-seen anime sequence from Production I.G of Ghost in the Shell fame. Being two movies fused into one, Affair will run over four hours long, but don’t worry: Lionsgate is throwing in a 15-minute intermission. It’s also going to live up to its name and be pretty bloody, which you can see in the trailer below.

Released in 2003 and 2004, the Kill Bill films star Uma Thurman as ex-assassin Beatrix Kiddo, who’s hunting down her fellow Deadly Viper assassins after they try to kill her and her unborn her child on her wedding night. Inspired by 1970s kung fu flicks, the cast includes Vivica A. Fox, Lucy Liu, and the late David Carradine, and both movies were well-reviewed, with Thurman earning Golden Globes nominations for each movie. They also made a lot of money—$180.9 million for the first and $150.3 million for the second, with the former having the highest-grossing opening weekend of Tarantino’s career when it came out.

Tarantino previously screened The Whole Bloody Affair a handful of times, but this marks its first-ever nationwide release. He’s also mentioned wanting to do a third movie, saying in 2021 he’d like to bring in Thurman’s real-life daughter Maya Hawke as the grown version of Beatrix’s daughter B.B. as they flee from assassins. But since he’s apparently retiring after his tenth film, that may not be in the cards, ditto a home release for Affair.

Tickets for Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair should go up soon.

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