There's no harm in that, especially with the body of work he leaves behind. Sometimes even the most successful of creators can't achieve all they reach for, especially one with an imagination as vivid as Tarantino's. Kill Bill: Volume 3 would be an exception, but time has proven how the writer-director's mind frequently changes. What makes "the whole bloody affair" (as he titled an un-cut mash-up of Volume 1 and Volume 2) tricky is Tarantino's planned retirement following his recently announced tenth film, The Critic. Legacy characters are part and parcel of the age of reboots, and as old as it makes some of us feel, Beatrix Kiddo counts as a legacy character if Tarantino decides to re-conclude her story. On the flip side, if her creator always intended for future installments and the stories are worthwhile (and Thurman wants to return), by all means, cue the "Ironside" sirens and the Hattori Hanzō sword. literally driving off into the sunset is a surprisingly happy ending given the world Beatrix inhabits, and goodness knows she deserves it. The lingering question is: do we need a continuation? Beatrix and B.B. Four years later, he and Thurman had circled back around and discussed the possibilities inherent to Volume 3: "If any of my movies were going to spring from my other movies," he said, "it would be a third Kill Bill." Smash-cut to 2015, and although Tarantino was hesitant, he didn't rule out returning to the Kill Bill-verse after all. Come 2012, he admitted that a third movie was off the table. He intended it as his ninth film, but that number instead went to the Oscar-winning Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. The director still aimed to make Volume 3 as of 2009. But I need at least 15 years before I do this again." "I was going to do a new one every 10 years. "Initially I was thinking this would be my Dollars Trilogy," the director said in 2004, referring to Italian director Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western saga starring Clint Eastwood. RELATED: Every Quentin Tarantino Movie Ranked from Worst to Best She's not alone in her goals, either characters like Elle Driver ( Daryl Hannah), Sofie Fatale ( Julie Dreyfus), and Gogo Yubari's ( Chiaki Kuriyama) identical twin sister (because why not?) all seek vengeance for Beatrix's rampage. According to Tarantino's plan, Nikki indeed still feels raw about losing her mother and begins her revenge quest against Beatrix.
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