Will Quentin Tarantino direct Kill Bill 3?

By The Editorial Team.

Published on 22 October 2021. Updated on 6 July 2026.

A third volume of the cult saga?

While Quentin Tarantino clearly stated that he only wanted to direct ten feature films before retiring from filmmaking, he is about to direct not one, but two new films. After the release of Once Upon A Time in Hollywood in 2019, the American filmmaker talked about his upcoming projects at the Rome Film Festival, where he received a lifetime achievement award in 2021. According to Variety, Quentin Tarantino replied, “Why not?” when a journalist asked him if he planned to direct the third part of Kill Bill. Yet, the project seems off the table. IN that same interview, the director admitted that he was also thinking about his next feature, which would be a spaghetti western.

“I would like to make a comedy. It won’t necessarily be my next film. But I can say that in any case there will be some spaghetti western in it. I want to do it in the spaghetti western style, where each person will speak a different language. The Mexican bandido is played by an Italian, the hero is American, the evil sheriff is German, the Mexican girl in the saloon is Israeli… And everyone speaks to each other in a different language. Basically, the actors are like, “OK, as soon as he’s done talking, it’s my turn!” Quentin Tarantino told Variety. In any case, it wouldn’t be the filmmaker’s first venture into the western genre… Django Unchained (2012) is the perfect example.

An original, integral version of Kill Bill to be unveiled

The prolific director will finally resurrect his cult 2003 work with Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, a cut that has long haunted film buffs. This complete 4-hour and 35-minute version will at last see the day of light on July 8th, 2026. This project brings together the two Kill Bill volumes into a single feature film and includes a fifteen-minute intermission. Enhanced with 18 to 33 minutes of new footage, it features seven additional minutes of animated sequences.

The soundtrack, curated by RZA, founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan and the project’s music supervisor, has become a generational playlist. Several academic film studies have focused on its so-called “needle drop” construction. The term refers to the art of inserting pre-existing tracks as narrative fragments, like rock, surf music, soul and themes from Japanese television series. Each song lands at a precise moment to create maximum dramatic impact.

Kill Bill has established itself as a transgenerational artefact. A feature that withstands the test of time without ever losing its edge. Through The Whole Bloody Affair, its spirit is finally revealed as it was always meant to be seen — a poem of stylised violence, a maximalist gesture that continues to fuel both academic scholars and TikTok memes.

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, coming out in theaters on July 8th, 2026.