Tarantino not done Killing Bill

Quentin Tarantino has been flapping his lip about returning to finally finish what he started with Kill Bill. Can the man not write a full movie from start to finish?

Ever since Tarantino apologetically sliced Kill Bill into two movies, he's been talking up their reunion in a DVD spectacular called The Whole Bloody Affair - both Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 spliced together. You'd think it'd be a simple matter of Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, but apparently not: there's a-tinkerin' to be done.

Talking to Sci-Wire, Tarantino said:

"I'm not going to monkey around with the movie itself, but we've actually done a whole new section for the anime as the last thing [we added]. I actually wrote a much longer script for the anime section during O-Ren's revenge chapter. Remember the guy with the long hair that kills her father? It's like, what happened to that dude? Well, I wrote it and it was the biggest, most elaborate thing I wrote - her taking him down."

This says everything about what terrible self-control Quentin Tarantino has - he's his own worst nightmare. The man simply doesn't know when to put his pen down. Some people are just in love with their sounds of their own voice; Tarantino has a hard-on for his own words.

It started with Kill Bill, his total lack of self-censure making the movie over-long and over-talkative - did we really need that Superman analogy in the final act? Then came Grindhouse, which spiralled into a four hour marathon and promptly died on its arse at the box-office, leading to separate (and extended) releases for both Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror and Tarantino's Death Proof.

Hell, even his CSI episode ran long; producers had no choice but to let him write a double episode. And he filled that with Grissom telling long-winded anecdotes about Roy Rodgers and Tony Curtis' non-sequitors.

Now not only is he talking up an Inglourious Basterds prequel - surprise surprise, he simply didn't have enough reel to shoot everything he wanted to - but he's talking about going back to an old project to make a few finishing touches? George Lucas, anyone?

The frustrating thing is, Death Proof excepted, I love Tarantino's films and I'll probably buy the Kill Bill special edition - I sold my individual DVDs of both movies when I learned about The Whole Bloody Affair: four years ago. The prospect of a Basterds origin movie sounds great too, but only because the first film was so lacking in that department. I am helplessly, hopelessly devoted to the man, but I'm finding his lack of self-control a little too transparent of late.

Anyone with me on this one?