„I actually made it a point not to do stuff like that”. Quentin Tarantino never intends to make the mistake he did with Kill Bill again
Quentin Tarantino took on quite a challenge in the making of Kill Bill, which he does not intend to take on again.
Quentin Tarantino is not likely to be interested in making sequels to his own films, Kill Bill being an exception. Initially, the production was supposed to be one film, however, Tarantino created such an extensive script, which is like a novel, that if he didn't want to get rid of some scenes, he had to divide his work into two parts. And so Kill Bill: Volume 1 and Kill Bill: Volume 2 were created.
However, after creating these films, Tarantino promised not to create such an extensive script again. As he confessed during an interview with NPR, adapting it later for the screen was a challenge he was not going to take on again. He explained, however, that in the case of Kill Bill such a long script was necessary to outline all the important information.
I got really into really writing more prose in the - in what you're calling the stage directions, all right, and consequently my scripts have gotten bigger and bigger, and cut to Kill Bill: Volume 1 and 2. But literally, by the time I was doing Kill Bill, it was so much filled with prose that, you know, I start seeing why people write a screenplay and make it more like a blueprint because basically I had written – in Kill Bill I had basically written a novel and basically every day I was adapting my novel to the screen on the fly, you know, on my feet.
So I didn't want my script to get too out of control like that. So I actually made it a point not to do stuff like that, to pretty – to keep it more sparse than it's been in the last few years, or the last decade. But that was the one encounter that I couldn't go sparse with it. I had to – I had to write it. I had to describe it. I had to describe it, where the character was coming from, describe the situation, how it happened.
But although Tarantino regretted writing such a voluminous script, he told the story exactly as he had originally planned, making two films instead of one. Later, however, he stuck to his resolve, not writing such extensive scripts again. Which is not to say that he gave up on detailing the stories he later took to the big screens.
Quentin Tarantino released a novelization of the story after the release of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, expanding on what was presented in the theatrical production. This means that the director continues to have a passion for writing, which he talked about on the occasion of Kill Bill, however, he decided to use it in a slightly different way, simply releasing an expanded version of the film in the form of a book, instead of stretching the movie itself.