Quentin Tarantino is dishing on how his Kill Bill collab with Fortnite came about.
The 62-year-old filmmaker worked with the game to bring to life a part of the original movie that never made it to the screen, and Uma Thurman had a hand in making it, reprising her role!
Keep reading to find out more…
“The Lost Chapter: Yuki’s Revenge” is an animated short featured in the popular game, and will be seen in the upcoming Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair theatrical event.
Quentin and Uma worked with Epic Games’ Unreal Engine and used motion capture tech to bring the actress’ performance to the game.
“They got together with me to talk about some situation where my characters and Fortnite do something kind of groovy,” Quentin said at a special launch event earlier this month, via Variety. “So I show up at the meeting thinking that we’re just going to talk about that they want to license the characters, and they want to get my ideas about what will be a fun thing to do.”
Instead of just licensing the characters, the gaming company asked he had something in the 8-12 minute range “that could be good for our purposes and make sure your iconic characters are wrapped up inside this.”
He did indeed, and it was a scene from the original first draft of the script for the OG movie that “never even made second drafts.”
“It was too crazy, too violent, and just too much action,” he added of the scene, which sees “Gogo (Chiaki Kuriyama) had a twin sister and had the sniffles that night at the House of Blue Leaves and leaves early.”
“I actually thought maybe the ship had sailed as far as, like doing new material. I was wrong,” the filmmaker went on. “When I wrote the first draft of the script, there was a lost chapter that, frankly, I just didn’t think we could pull off. And Yuki has been a figment of my imagination for over 20 years.”
The Whole Bloody Affair is a supercut of both Kill Bill movies, along with “The Lost Chapter,” and will release in theaters starting December 5th – Check out the trailer!
“The Lost Chapter: Yuki’s Revenge” is set to debut in Fortnite on Sunday (November 30).
