Many have speculated — and maybe even Quentin alluded to this back in the day — that if there was a “Kill Bill 3,” the story would center on the daughter of Vivica Fox’s Jeannie Bell (“Copperhead”) character who watched the bride, Beatrix Kiddo (Uma Thurman), kill her mother right in front of her eyes in “Kill Bill 2.”
Many speculated/ assumed a third film would see the grown up daughter try and avenge her mother’s death, though Tarantino has said the films would be 10 years apart. Whether we’re supposed to do the math literally or not is unknown, but it feels if the avenging daughter would be the ‘KB3’ story, you’d probably need more than 10 years to properly suspend disbelief (the girl would only be what, 18, 19? At best conservative count?).
Anyhow, many people (including us), have been rather skeptical whether we’ll actually see this film or not. Tarantino promises a lot of sequels and so far has yet to deliver (we’re grateful frankly, but that’s another story). But in an interview with MTV, Uma Thurman says Quentin has already come up with story ideas/lines, shared them with her and may or may not have started some preliminary writing.
“We did chat [about the story], we did chat,” she told MTV. “He has not yet finished the script. I don’t even really know if he’s really started it, although I got a taste of some of his ideas and they are really good. He has started to share with me what he was thinking, and it’s awesome,” she said refusing to let the cat out of the bag.
Already that’s a lot more thought and effort than we imagined QT had put into that potential story at this juncture in time. And the idea that he may have started? Or at least has the gears turning? It’s definitely an interesting thought.
But we don’t actually want to see a “Kill Bill 3,” frankly. His original creations are always great ideas (while some of us — me — didn’t like ‘Inglourious,’ the script is excellent) and we’d rather not see him go down the lazy route of sequel-ville which really does separate good filmmakers from classic filmmakers, honestly. But we won’t doubt him again. Tarantino said “Inglourious Basterds” would be turned around in a year and much to our disbelief he did make his own Cannes deadline.
So if he’s actively plotting and thinking about “Kill Bill 3” maybe 2014 isn’t just a pipe dream. Still, the idea that he could tackle either a U.S. Slavery story, a true-blue Western or an 1930s Gangster film are honestly all more appealing, simply because he’s never been there yet. Do you really want to see Tarantino repeat himself? (aside from the concepts and genre themes he’s already played with more than once)