Kill Bill returning to cinemas in December with a combined four-hour cut

The Bride’s revenge saga will finally be shown in full on the big screen this December with Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair. Duration: roughly 248 minutes. Famously split into two movies, released in 2003 and 2004, Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill is getting a combined cinema re-release in December – resulting in a generous martial ... Kill Bill returning to cinemas in December with a combined four-hour cut

The Bride’s revenge saga will finally be shown in full on the big screen this December with Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair. Duration: roughly 248 minutes.

Famously split into two movies, released in 2003 and 2004, Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill is getting a combined cinema re-release in December – resulting in a generous martial arts saga lasting over four hours. Lionsgate is behind the new release, which will be presented in both 35mm and 70mm depending on the venue (presumably there’ll also be a digital roll-out for cinemas that no longer have traditional film projectors).

Called Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (best read out in the voice of Michael Caine), the new 250-minute cut will also add a seven-and-a-half minute animated sequence removed from the original.

Tarantino originally intended his revenge thriller, starring Uma Thurman, Daryl Hannah, Lucy Liu and Sonny Chiba, to be released as a single movie. It was during the editing process that he realised that audiences would probably balk at sitting through four hours of mayhem, and so Kill Bill was released in two ‘volumes’.

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“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,” Tarantino wrote in a statement shared by Variety. “The best way to see Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair is at a movie theatre in glorious 70mm or 35mm. Blood and guts on a big screen in all its glory!”

The reunited volumes will also be slightly edited to improve the narrative flow: the TV-style cliffhanger at the end of Volume 1 will be removed, as will the ‘previously on Kill Bill’ opening from Volume 2. There will, however, be an intermission, allowing audiences to stretch their legs for a few minutes and maybe buy a choc ice from a seller holding a torch. Ah, memories. Jumpers for goalposts.

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair will appear in US cinemas from the 5th December 2025. We’ll update you on UK cinema dates in due course.