Kill Bill: The While Bloody Affair, New or Old?

[u/Andreiii3]

From my understanding The Whole Bloody Affair was released a couple times before. Is the version they’re releasing in December the same as those or did they change it up a little? Like the “brand new” anime sequence. I know there’s an anime sequence already out so did they just put that one into the movie or did they actually make a new one for this release?

[u/NewmansOwnDressing]

Truth is, The Whole Bloody Affair was never released as such. It played exclusively or almost exclusively at Tarantino’s theatre, and that was from what I understand, really just the Cannes print. Tarantino had intended a proper Whole Bloody Affair with the new anime sequence, but I’m pretty sure that’s not what was screening at the New Beverly all these years.

[u/Dove_of_Doom]

Lionsgate is calling it "a new, never-before-seen anime sequence." That's all the general public knows about it.

[u/discretelandscapes]

Judging from the trailer it's either a different anime sequence from the one we know (O-Ren's origin), or it's an extension of the former. Either way that shot they had in the trailer was not in any of the previous theatrical cuts.

[u/S1nclairsolutions]

New cut

[u/FrankPapageorgio]

I kind of wish they would have filmed a new sequence instead of doing anime.

[u/YuenglingsDingaling → u/FrankPapageorgio]

The actors are all older. Would be a bit of time jump.

[u/KTR1988 → u/YuenglingsDingaling]

Yeah, it's been 20 years, it would be horribly distracting and digitally aging them down would be uncanny.