Kill Bill
Japanese Official Kill Bill Site Launched
Mar 8th
The official Japanese site for Kill Bill is now live. Once you get there, mouse clicks and keystrokes make things happen (sword swipes and blood splatter). Plus if you type KILLBILL you’ll get an interesting little title sequence for an ultra-short teaser trailer.
AICN has a bit more info, including some talk of Kill Bill items currently on eBay. The 2 small Japanese posters are of particular interest to me – though I’m not sure I need more blood splatter on my walls than the Reservoir Dogs subway poster currently gracing my wallredirect 301 http:// already provides.
Kill Bill Is 1 Movie Again
Mar 3rd
Straight from the horses mouth – Miramax – the rumor that Kill Bill was to be split up into two different movies is untrue. An October 2003 release date is still planned.
Kill Bill To Be Split Into 2 Movies
Feb 28th
This story seems to be a bit crazy, but its coming from one of the cast (David Carradine) and not some wacko trying to start a rumor – so it may indeed be true:
Quentin Tarantino’s first film in six years, Kill Bill, has taken so long to film and grown so much in scope and length that is likely to become two films, according to one of its stars, David Carradine.
Uma Thurman Speaks Out About ‘Kill Bill’
Jan 29th
There isn’t really much substance to the article other than a couple of interesting quotes.
From Uma Thurman:
“I never, ever saw myself as even having an auxiliary part in an action movie,” Thurman said backstage at the Golden Globes, shortly after winning a Best Actress award for the TV movie “Hysterical Blindness.” “Now I’m there punching and kicking and fighting, day in and day out. So, it’s kind of a career anomaly.”
From Samuel L. Jackson:
“Quentin did another movie?” he said with mock surprise. “What? He didn’t call me!”
Kill Bill To Miss Cannes
Jan 26th
Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Kill Bill will not make its planned debut at the Cannes Film Festival in May as originally planned. Filming for Tarantino’s 4th film was supposed to wrap in late October 2002, but it actually still continuing in Mexico late this month. The October 2003 release date has not yet been changed.
Cinematic Book Version of Kill Bill Available
Jan 18th
Its what Tarantino calls a ‘cinematic novel’ – not quite a screenplay, not quite a full fledged novel. You can pre-order it now from Amazon for about $17, but it doesn’t ship until June of this year.
UPDATE: The cinematic novel has been cancelled.
Kill Bill Teaser Trailer Released
Jan 10th
The Kill Bill teaser trailer (its very long for a teaser) has been released. Additionally, the teaser trailer has been ranked in the Top 10 list for trailers in 2002 by The Trades.
Kill Bill Cinematic Book
Jan 10th
In addition to the planned publication of the Kill Bill screenplay, Talk Miramax Books will release a book version of the movie.
Tarantino calls the book a hybrid “cinematic novel”, telling Variety “I’m moving away from screenplay format, keeping what I do like of the form and throwing away what I don’t…. Kill Bill is not a novelization. It functions as a script, and it functions as a novel, but it’s not a script and it’s not a novelization. It’s something in the middle that gets across my writing style as its purest.”
Without having any real knowledge of what Tarantino considers a “cinematic novel”, I’d guess that it’ll be a very dialogue-driven book, skipping over much of the wordiness that you typically see in a full fledged novel.
UPDATE: The cinematic novel has been cancelled.
