So I pretty much love everything in Kill Bill, but that anime sequence in Vol. 1 is particularly striking. MTV Movies has word that we might be seeing more Kill Bill anime soon:

Two year[s] ago Quentin Tarantino piqued the interest of film fans everywhere when he promised two new anime companion films to Kill Bill, one supposedly about the origin of The Bride and the other about Bill himself.

We don’t know what’s happened to the story of The Bride, but the other animated film is going to blow you away, insisted star Uma Thurman.

“His anime stuff is strong,” she smiled….

“Right now he’s putting the two films together with an intermission with an added anime sequence he had already written,” she said of the ongoing saga of Beatrix Kiddo. “So additional stories are in there, in animation.”

Seems like ever since Kill Bill Vol. 1 came out—with the “House of Blue Leaves” sequence neutered into black and white to get an R rating—I’ve been waiting for Tarantino to release an unedited version on DVD. (In addition to the anime prequels to Kill Bill that he promised at one point, Tarantino has also talked about editing the two volumes together and releasing a special edition DVD to replace the bare-bones theatrical versions that’re currently available.) If I remember correctly, though (which almost never happens, but still), all of Miramax’s trouble started right about the time Vol. 2 wrapped up—which is maybe part of the reason that mega-DVD has taken so long to put together.

But this vague promise—that either Tarantino is either editing together Vols. 1 and 2 and putting new, animated footage in there, or that he’s actually getting down to producing the animated prequels—sounds great. Provided, that is, that it actually happens, and that it doesn’t just turn into another thing like Inglorious Bastards, which, at this point, I’m now 99 percent sure will never happen, and will just be one more project that Tarantino will perennially talk about maybe possibly doing someday.

Via Dark Horizons.