Kill Bill The Whole Bloody Affair to be released as one film in 2025

Quentin Tarantino’s formerly two-part revenge epic Kill Bill will return to theaters as a single, reedited feature titled Kill Bill The Whole Bloody Affair on Dec. 5, 2025, Lionsgate said. The nationwide rollout will include presentations in 70mm and 35mm film and will add a never-before-seen seven-and-a-half-minute animated sequence while removing the cliffhanger that ended Vol. 1 and the recap that opened Vol. 2.

Tarantino has described the project as the way he originally intended the story to be seen. "I wrote and directed it as one movie and I'm so glad to give the fans the chance to see it as one movie," he said in a statement, recommending theatrical screenings in 70mm or 35mm. The restored cut has been screened on a limited basis in the past, including a Cannes presentation and runs at Los Angeles theaters the New Beverly and the Vista, but this will be its first wide release.

Kill Bill was shot as a single, roughly four-hour film but was split into Kill Bill Vol. 1 and Kill Bill Vol. 2 at the request of its original distributor to avoid significant trimming. The two parts were released six months apart, in October 2003 and April 2004. Combined, they grossed more than...