10 Alternative Version Of Movies You Didnt Know About
9. Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair Combines Both Movies
You might well be aware that Quentin Tarantino's two-part Kill Bill saga was originally conceived and shot as a single film, but scissor-happy producer and general trash-planet of a human being Harvey Weinstein suggested that the director cut the film in two to avoid brutal edits.
And considering the two movies total over four hours, it's fair to say that it would've basically been unreleasable as a conventional multiplex feature - audiences would've been put off and cinema chains wouldn't have wanted to program something so ridiculously long.
Splitting the film in two not only allowed Miramax to make more money, but ensured Tarantino could keep more "extraneous" material in each film, such as O-Ren Ishii's (Lucy Liu) animated backstory in Volume 1.
And so, Kill Bill was released in two parts in late 2003 and early 2004 to critical acclaim and commercial success.
However, in 2008 Tarantino revealed the existence of his original four-hour version of the story as a single movie, including an extended version of O-Ren's origins, entitled Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair.
Tarantino began screening the film at his own picture-house, Los Angeles' New Beverly Cinema, in 2011 but it never received a wider release beyond this. Over a decade later, it still hasn't been made available on home video.
With Tarantino recently releasing an extended "mini-series" version of The Hateful Eight to Netflix, many are hopeful The Whole Bloody Affair could end up on a streaming service in the near-future.
Given that this version of the film is 100% complete and doesn't require any Snyder Cut-esque post-production work, it's certainly possible. We want to believe.