Tarantino to re-release Kill Bill as one film

The success enjoyed by revenge epic Kill Bill has made director Quentin Tarantino reconsider his decision to release the movie in two parts.

17:27 01 September 2004

The success enjoyed by revenge epic Kill Bill has made director Quentin Tarantino reconsider his decision to release the movie in two parts.

Tarantino has decided that the films will play well as one four-hour 1960s style extravaganza.

"It's not just like slapping the two together," the Pulp Fiction director commented.

"There are slight changes, and it has an intermission, like a '60s movie.

"We have put everything we could on volumes one and two, but I have all this cool stuff we have from over the course of a year and a half making [the films]."

Combined takings for the two films totalled more than $136 million in the US alone and DVD sales have also been strong.

Tarantino originally meant to make a single movie, but split it in half after deciding he did not want to lose large sections of the footage he shot to slim the movie down to two hours.