It's been six years since Quentin Tarantino's last directing project, JACKIE BROWN, debuted, and fans of the filmmaker have been anxiously awaiting his next film ever since. That picture, KILL BILL, which is due to hit theaters on October 10th, stars occasional Tarantino muse Uma Thurman as a vengeance-minded, samurai sword-wielding assassin who's out to, of course, kill Bill (David Carradine)her former boss who tried to have her murdered on her wedding day.
But what's all this noise about Tarantino slicing KILL BILL in two, and turning it into two movies? Well, it's true, and CINESCAPE got the scoop first in an exclusive interview with Tarantino himself. That story can be found in CINESCAPE #72, which goes on sale August 3rd, but here's a sneak peak at what the director had to say about the subject of two BILLs versus one:
CINESCAPE: How He's back! JOHN CARPENTER'S SNAKE PLISSKEN CHRONICLES #1. © 2003 CrossGen/Hurricaneare you going to split the movie into two parts and how did that happen?
TARANTINO: It's been speculated for a long time, and we hadn't known for sure if we were going to do it or not until recently. I screened it for [Miramax President] Harvey [Weinstein] and said, "This is the first half of the movie; we're not done with the second one." After screening it to Harvey, he said, "That's it. That's the first movie. Great ending. Fantastic. I love it. That's the first movie." We didn't split it up because of time either. The movie is not going to be that long. It would be a long movie if I put it all together. As it is, the first one is about 94 minutes and the next one is about 94 minutes.
CINESCAPE: When will the second one come out?
TARANTINO: The first one will come out at the beginning of October and we're looking at the schedule [to determine] exactly when to bring out the next one. The idea is at a certain point both movies will be playing in theaters.
CINESCAPE: You also run the risk of, "What if the movie fails? You have Volume 2 and no one wants to see it." Have you worried about that?
TARANTINO: Not really. It's not like it's this four-hour movie. There was an aspect of it where I was like, "This is a grindhouse movie; it can't be three hours. That's just too pretentious. Instead it's two 90-minute movies. That's the deal." It also became less and less an issue of length and more and more an issue of intensity. Don't mess with Uma Thurman when she wears Bruce Lee fashions. © Miramax FilmsI don't know if the average moviegoer could handle it from beginning to end in one sitting. At the end of the first one, you want to go home, have a drink and go and eat pie and talk about it.
For more of our interview with Tarantino, come by the CrossGen booth at the San Diego ComicCon this week, where 3,000 issues of Cinescape #72 will be given away free. Also inside this issue is a free JOHN CARPENTER'S SNAKE PLISSKEN CHRONICLES #1 comic book! What more can you ask for?
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