December of 2019 was the last time we got an update about the possibility of a Kill Bill Vol. 3 — the long-discussed sequel to Quentin Tarantino’s two-part saga. Tarantino was claiming it was “definitely in the cards.”
“I wouldn't wanna just come up with some cockamamie adventure, the Bride doesn't deserve that,” Tarantino explained. “The Bride has fought long and hard. But now I actually have an idea that could be interesting.”
Tarantino predicted that it would take a while for the project to come together; “at least three years from now.”
Well, now it’s 2022. More than two years later, The Bride herself, Uma Thurman, said on The Jess Cagle Show that the film is not happening anytime soon.
"I can’t really tell you anything about it. I mean it has been discussed over the years. There was real thought about it happening, but very long ago. I don’t see it as immediately on the horizon."
The concept of a Kill Bill Vol. 3 has been public since the first movie came out; Tarantino always said he would be interested in doing a follow-up about the daughter of Vernita Green as an adult, coming to get her own revenge against Thurman for killing her mother decades earlier. The great thing about that idea is it doesn’t necessarily have to be made right now; you could make that Kill Bill Vol. 3 10 years from now and it would still make total sense. In some ways, the longer it takes to make, the more poignant that story of the consequences of bloody revenge would become. So let’s just hope it finally does happen at some point.
You can hear Thurman’s full comments on Kill Bill Vol. 3 below.