Quentin Tarantino Reveals Why He Revived Lost Chapter From ‘Kill Bill’ for Fortnite Collaboration

When Quentin Tarantino took a meeting with Fortnite, he had a hunch how it might go down.

“I showed up to the meeting thinking that they would want to license characters and they want to get my ideas about what could be a fun thing to do,” Tarantino explained in front of a capacity crowd gathered for a special Fortnite Now Playing event held at his own Vista Theater in Los Angeles on Nov. 19. “But no, they had something else in mind.”

That something else: “They very innocently asked me, ‘Do you have something that’s, like, eight to 12 minutes long that could be good for our purposes?’ Now they didn’t say, ‘Can you make sure that your iconic characters are wrapped up inside of that?’ But that was implied.”

Fortunately for the folks at Fortnite, the filmmaker happened to have something buried deep in the first draft of Kill Bill that might be just what they were looking for to help them launch a new chapter of the blockbuster video game franchise. Titled The Lost Chapter: Yuki’s Revenge, the project was pulled from the original script that Tarantino never filmed because, as he explained, “We couldn’t do it, it was just too crazy, it was just too much action.” (For reference, Kill Bill: Volume 1 and Volume 2 have a combined run time of four hours and 41 minutes.)

Yuki’s Revenge follows Yuki, the twin sister of Gogo Yubari, as she hunts down Uma Thurman’s The Bride to avenge her sister’s death. Gogo, the bodyguard of Lucy Liu’s O-Ren Ishii, was assassinated along with the Crazy 88 and O-Ren in a series of blood-soaked sequences from Volume 1. So, Tarantino dusted off the draft, sent it over to Fortnite, “and they were, like, ‘Let’s do this.’ And here we are.”