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Quentin Tarantino has been attached to a lot of unmade sequels over the years; some to his own work, and others in established franchises. The list of unmade Quentin Tarantino movies is a loooooong one, and littered with potential gems.
Over the years, he has circled adaptations of Luke Cage, author Len Deighton’s Game, Set and Match spy trilogy and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Tarantino also cited Sgt. Rock as the only screenplay he didn't write that he'd be willing to direct. The director is quite selective in what he chooses to make, however.
While Tarantino has talked up many juicy projects, he only commits to those that truly hold his interest. While he largely focuses on making original stories, he's mulled over some remakes and franchises too. With Tarantino's retirement after his upcoming, unannounced tenth movie, it's doubtful he will circle back to any of the sequels he considered in previous years.
Kill Bill: Vol 3
Uma Thurman pointing a gun in Kill Bill: Vol 2.
The ending of Kill Bill: Vol 2 wrapped up The Bride's (Uma Thurman) journey, where she succeeded in her titular mission and was reunited with her daughter. However, Tarantino left several threads dangling, such as the unresolved fate of Daryl Hannah's vicious assassin Elle Driver.
Tarantino talked many times about a potential Kill Bill: Vol 3 that picked up two decades later with The Bride and her daughter being targeted for revenge. The filmmaker has up and dowm on the odds of the sequel actually happening, but he has essentially ruled it out now.
Tarantino cited his sheer fatigue from making Kill Bill as a key reason why he never seriously sat down to develop a third film. However, to help promote the release of 2025's Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, Tarantino allowed an unfilmed chapter from his original screenplay titled Yuki's Revenge to be adapted into an animated short by Fortnite.
This chapter was intended for the first Kill Bill, and saw The Bride targeted by Yuki, the sister of Gogo (Chiaki Kuriyama). This short is likely as close to Kill Bill: Vol 3 as fans will get.
Kill Bill Anime Prequels
O-Ren in the anime segment of Kill Bill.
For a time, Tarantino had a whole franchise plan for the Kill Bill saga, as he was so taken with the world he had created. His ideas included an anime prequel involving The Bride's time with the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad. This would have added some backstory to this team, who are only briefly glimpsed in the movies.
Tarantino also had an idea for an anime exploring how Bill (David Carradine) became such a powerful assassin. This would have explored his training with his "Godfathers": Pei Mei (Johnny Mo), Esteban Vihaio (Michael Parks) and Hatori Hanso (Sonny Chiba). Sadly, neither animated movie came to be.
Double V Vega
John Travolta as Vincent Vega dancing in Pulp Fiction.
Pulp Fiction's Vincent Vega was written with the late, great Michael Madsen in mind. Madsen had already played the psychotic thief Vic Vega in Reservoir Dogs, with the intention being that the Vegas were twins. However, Madsen dropped out to star in Wyatt Earp, so John Travolta setted into Vincent's shoes for Pulp Fiction.
For a period, Tarantino mulled a prequel titled Double V Vega, where the two brothers have a violent, madcap adventure in Amsterdam. However, as time passed and the two stars aged out of being able to convincingly play younger versions of the Vegas, the project was abandoned.
Killer Crow
Brad Pitt as Aldo holding a bowie knife in Inglourious Basterds.
Tarantino spent years penning Inglourious Basterds, with several chapters being dropped from the final version. This includes a segment following a group of African American soldiers who, after being messed over by the military, take their revenge against some white soldiers.
While it didn't make the cut in Inglourious Basterds, Tarantino considered recycling Killer Crow as part of a loose trilogy that also includes Django Unchained. It appears the filmmaker cooled on the idea, as little has been heard about the WW2 adventure in over a decade.
Star Trek 4
Chris Pine in uniform in Star Trek Beyond.
One of the most infamous instances of Tarantino talking up a sequel that never happened is the unmade fourth film in Star Trek's Kelvin Timeline. Tarantino began developing this around the time he was working on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, with the story said to be based on TOS' episode "A Piece of the Action."
This saw the Enterprise visiting a planet modeled after 1920s gangster culture. QT planned this sequel to be R-rated, but he also offered differing thoughts on setting it inside the Kelvin continuity. While he liked the script and was willing to ignore his self-imposed ten-movie limit, Tarantino ultimately walked away from the film.
Halloween 6
Michael Myers and Dr. Terence Wynn in the Producer's Cut of Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
Probably the closest QT came to a gory slasher was being offered the chance to write and direct Halloween 6. It appears Tarantino was never totally sold on the notion, though he did conceive of a plot where Michael Myers and his "handler," The Man in Black, go on a violent road trip together.
Admittedly, his Halloween 6 premise sounded pretty thin, and Tarantino instead opted to make Jackie Brown as his next project. Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers eventually arrived in 1995 to poor reviews and box office, leading to the saga being soft rebooted with Halloween H20: 20 Years Later a few years later.
Grindhouse 2
Kurt Russell's Stuntman Mike smokes in a bar in the Grindhouse film Death Proof.
The original Grindhouse was a loving ode to the scuzzy exploitation movies Tarantino and director pal Robert Rodriguez grew up with. This "double bill" saw QT helming Death Proof, about a stuntman (played by Kurt Russell) who murders women using his soaped-up stunt car, while Rodriguez's Planet Terror was a gory zombie adventure.
The movie is arguably best known now for its collection of fake trailers, helmed by the likes of Edgar Wright and Rob Zombie. There were hopes of Grindhouse spawning a sequel, with Tarantino planning to make a retro Kung-fu epic entirely in Mandarin as one half of a new double feature. Grindhouse's financial failure killed that plan, sadly.
Django/Zorro
panels from Django/Zorro #3
Like Kill Bill, Tarantino had notions to expand on the world of Django Unchained. The Hateful Eight started life as a paperback sequel titled Django in White Hell, before the filmmaker reworked the concept into a screenplay, as he felt Django just didn't belong in the original story. 2015 then saw the arrival of the crossover comic Django/Zorro.
Jamie Foxx briefly reprised the role of Django for a cameo in the parody A Million Ways to Die in the West.
Years later, Tarantino had planned to co-write an adaptation where Foxx would have teamed with Antonio Banderas' Zorro from The Mask of Zorro duology. Like so many other projects on this list, the project quietly died a few years.
Casino Royale
Daniel Craig as James Bond in Casino Royale opening titles.
As with Star Trek 4 and Kill Bill: Vol 3, Tarantino's Casino Royale is one of the great "what-ifs" of his career. The filmmaker pursued the rights to the first James Bond novel for years and had planned to make it independent of EON's mainline series.
He wanted Pierce Brosnan as 007, in addition to making it R-rated and a 1960s-set, black and white thriller. However, EON eventually nabbed the rights to the book in the early 2000s (much to Quentin Tarantino's chagrin) and they used it as the first entry in the Daniel Craig reboot era.
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