QT Still Has Plans for 'Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair'

The best reason I can think of to release Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair - a rejoined version of Tarantino's great two-parter from a few years back as one four-hour film - is because the original DVDs for Volume I and Volume II are really average. At the time the films were released theatrically, QT promised he would put the films back together again eventually, and we're still waiting. But now, there appears to be some movement on The Whole Bloody Affair, although we're still not sure when we'd see it on DVD. The writer-director tells Tarantino Archives (via The Playlist) that the project is starting to round into shape. Of course, since he's (via hard at work prepping (via Inglourious Basterds for Cannes, it'll probably be another six to eight months before Tarantino could spend much time on Kill Bill.

"We’ve actually added some things to it. We did a whole little chapter that I wrote and designed for the animated sequence, that we never did, because we figured, back when it was gonna be one big movie, it was going to be too long, so we didn’t do it. So when we were talking about re-releasing it, they asked is there anything you can put in, and I said no I put everything in there, but… there’s one sequence that we wouldn’t even have to shoot! So we got together with Production IG and did it, and it’s really cool. So it’s this little seven minute sequence, it’s really cool, it’s in the O-Ren chapter."

If memory serves, the two volumes are not presented that way in Tarantino's original version. If you watched what he had in mind from the beginning, it wouldn't be Volume I and then Volume II; the sequence would be different. I wonder if that's still the plan and what else QT has planned for the DVD.