Quentin Tarantino Weighs In as the Lost Kill Bill Chapter Hits Fortnite After 20 Years

File this under things I did not expect: Quentin Tarantino is bringing a long-lost Kill Bill chapter back from the dead — as an animated short — and it’s premiering inside Fortnite. Yes, really.

What’s actually coming

• Title: The Lost Chapter: Yuki’s Revenge — based on an early Kill Bill draft that never made it to shooting.
• Format: Animated short, clocking in at eight minutes.
• Where to see it: Debuting in Fortnite, with a limited theatrical run bundled into Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair.
• Cast: Uma Thurman is back voicing The Bride.
• Character spotlight: Yuki Yubari — Gogo’s twin sister — takes center stage. If you remember Gogo’s ball-and-chain mayhem from Vol. 1, you get the vibe.
• Origin story: Tarantino first wrote this chapter decades ago, then cut it because the action was too over-the-top to pull off at the time.
• The ask: Epic Games came looking for something eight to twelve minutes long — not just a character license — and this dormant chapter fit the bill.
• The reveal: Tarantino walked through the whole thing during a launch event at the Vista Theater in Los Angeles.

How this collaboration actually happened

Tarantino says Epic initially reached out to talk about getting his characters into Fortnite. He figured it was the usual licensing conversation. Instead, Epic asked if he had a tight, self-contained piece — something in that 8–12 minute sweet spot — that could live inside the game. That’s a very specific request, and kind of a fascinating window into how these crossovers get made now.

So he dug up an original Kill Bill chapter about Yuki Yubari, Gogo’s twin, that never made it past the earliest drafts because it was, in his words, too chaotic and too action-heavy to do justice back then. He sent it over. Epic’s response was basically: great, let’s make it.

The result is a fully animated short with Uma Thurman returning as The Bride, landing first in Fortnite and then hitting select theaters as part of The Whole Bloody Affair cut. It’s a very 2020s pipeline: lost script page to animated short to game premiere to boutique theatrical.

"I want both the 'Kill Bill' fan and the Fortnite fan to be totally effing happy about this collaboration."

Why this is notable

Beyond the novelty of a Tarantino short debuting in a battle royale, this is a rare case of a filmmaker turning an old, too-ambitious set piece into a new project that actually fits the medium. Animation solves the scale problem that killed the chapter originally, and Fortnite gives it a massive stage before it slides into that limited theatrical slot with The Whole Bloody Affair. If you’ve been waiting twenty-plus years for more Crazy 88–era carnage, this is the closest we’re getting — and yes, with Uma back in the mix.