Lionsgate

[dwk]

Lionsgate has acquired the rights to Jackie Brown, Kill Bill Vol.1 and Kill Bill Vol. 2. Kill Bill is getting remastered in 4K for irs 20th anniversary.

[yoloswegmaster]

I'm hoping that this contains The Whole Bloody Affair.

[therewillbeblus]

Kill Bill is getting remastered in 4K for irs 20th anniversary.

About time. I revisited this a couple months ago on blu and, while still good, was surprised by how much the image could be improved upon. Kinda surreal, since this was also the first movie I ever saw on blu-ray about fifteen years ago, and was so blown away by what the format could achieve on a small screen that it made me viscerally uncomfortable. Oh how times have changed!

[Finch]

As much as I like Kill Bill both volumes, I find it sad that Jackie Brown does not appear to be getting a fresh 4k scan (yet?). Tarantino's best film to me. If he wasn't so hung up on retiring after the tenth film, I'd have enjoyed seeing him adapting more Leonard or something else.

[The Fanciful Norwegian]

Really curious what the remaster will entail. The originals went through 2K digital intermediates back when that was still a fairly new process, and quite frankly they've always looked like it. Ideally they'll rescan the 35mm source and create proper 4K DIs, but I wouldn't rule out the possibility they'll just make 4K scans of the 35mm film-outs.

[dwk]

I'm hoping that this contains The Whole Bloody Affair.

I had seen a rumor that Harvey Weinstein personally owned the rights to that cut. It would be great if the rights reverted to Tarantino along with the rights to Jackie Brown and the individual Kill Bill Vols.

[beamish14]

I'm hoping that this contains The Whole Bloody Affair.

I had seen a rumor that Harvey Weinstein personally owned the rights to that cut. It would be great if the rights reverted to Tarantino along with the rights to Jackie Brown and the individual Kill Bill Vols.

I’ve always thought that Tarantino intended to make it exclusively available through its very rare theatrical screenings

[therewillbeblus]

I get that logic to some minor degree, but since he always wanted it to be one movie and was pressured by Weinstein et al. to break it up as he did, I see no reason why he wouldn't want to restore a four hour experience for home viewers the way he intended it to be consumed. After all, the man collects celluloid, wants to start a blu-ray label, and is all about home screenings

[SeizureMilk]

When did Tarantino say he wanted to start a blu-ray label?

[dwk]

When did Tarantino say he wanted to start a blu-ray label?

He was talking with Sony about selecting and presenting some of their titles. And, in typical Tarantino fashion, he just wants to do scans of theatrical prints.

[black&huge]

was there even an actual whole bloody affair cut? I had read over the years that what he screened at New Beverly was more or less a quick slap together and not whatever his idea of what the Whole Bloody Affair would be. The only thing confirmed I had heard was the extended/colorized Blue Leaves fight. I had heard he also extended the anime sequence? can anyone actually confirm if that is true at least?

[sabbath]

was there even an actual whole bloody affair cut? I had read over the years that what he screened at New Beverly was more or less a quick slap together and not whatever his idea of what the Whole Bloody Affair would be. The only thing confirmed I had heard was the extended/colorized Blue Leaves fight. I had heard he also extended the anime sequence? can anyone actually confirm if that is true at least?

A detailed report from the 2021 New Beverly Cinema screeneing: https://www.slashfilm.com/515003/kill-b ... g-results/

[ryannichols7]

I genuinely hope he doesn't follow through on that cut, as removing the cliffhanger from the end of Vol 1 would be a tragedy - the song in that scene holds very deep significance to me and that's it's only usage in a movie that I've ever seen, and he did a perfect job with it. I'm hoping he keeps it in. it's one of the better moments in his filmography for me, and I haven't watched the film in a very long time

[domino harvey]

These integrated cut scenes were circulating 15+ years ago from the Japanese cut. The added gore to the Blue Leaves fight is terrific and inventive