Tarantino started writing Kill Bill in the 90s, but when 2000’s Battle Royale came out, it inspired the Gogo and Yuki Yubari characters. Initially, he envisioned actress Kou Shibasaki as Yuki, to use his two favourite actors from Battle Royale as sisters. The chapter later went unfilmed because Shibasaki couldn’t join the production due to other commitments, and the sequence was dropped.
For years, fans traded rumors that Tarantino might finally shoot it with Shibasaki for his long-teased Ultimate DVD Box Set, a project with no confirmed release date and no clear future.
Now, out of seemingly nowhere, Fortnite has stepped in, animating the long-lost chapter and bringing to life a scene that has existed only on the page. And doubly surprising is that it’s an almost perfect recreation of the script, swearing included. That said, there are a few notable changes and even a second lost scene that wasn’t included.
The intro and director cameo.
Tarantino’s katana-clutching expert is actually Bill himself in the original script, though David Carradine has since past, Tarantino took over the role. After that, we get a short scene of Hattori Hanzo stitching up The Bride after the O-Ren fight.
CU HATTORI HANZO
He’s sewing something that requires a lot of concentration.
CU The BRIDE’S BARE BACK
What he’s sewing is, the NASTY SLASH O-Ren gave the Bride on
her back, closed with a simple needle and thread.
CU The BRIDE
lies naked on her stomach, head up, chin resting on her
folded hand, feeling no pain at the needle piercing her
flesh. The sleeping giant is awake, and in her eyes we see
she’s filled with a terrible resolve.
As Hanzo sews, he recites in Japanese the Yagu mantra, the
Bride recites in Japanese after him.
EX CU: O-REN ISHII’S name written in the Bride’s notebook
with the number one next to it. A black felt pen comes into
frame and draws a line through the name.
drop right into Yuki’s LA holiday- Same outfit, some montage, same icecream cone (minus the kid reaching for it).
Did Tarantino predict shield potions?
In the cinematic, Yuki drinks couple bottles of the classic Fortnite shield potion, which they call “The Blues.” What’s funny is that it’s actually from the original script.
That said, instead of a glowing bottle, Yuki carries a baby-blue powder, already chopped and lined on the dashboard. She snorts it like a rail of cocaine, with the same tagline “DRUG of Bill’s own concoction. He calls it, ‘The Blues.’” Aside from that, it works the same, giving Yuki extra health in a long fight.
A line was edited, but not one you’d expect.
Surprisingly, Fortnite is happy to use “Bitch” and “Asshole” uncensored, but this line was a bridge too far. After the “Yuki?/Bingo!” exchange, the bride asks:
In Japanese:
BRIDE
“Can I help you?”YUKI
“You can kill yourself.”Then Yuki giggles.
Instead, the short edits it to:
“I was thinking… I’d have you die on your own.”
It’s hard to imagine anyone would get in trouble for a line like this in a scene like this, but I think we all expected far more censorship from the short anyway so why complain?
The chase Is Fortnite-ified.
In Tarantino’s version, a Volkswagen explodes after Yuki pitches a grenade, not a generic Fortnite truck. Aside from that, it’s practically the same.
Of course, Tarantino never wrote in Peely. In the script, it’s a couple of curious neighbors that The Bride tells to:
“Stay in your house and stay down on the floor!”
And Mullet Marauder & Aerobic Assassin replace a family hiding from the violence.
She runs through the living room, to the kitchen and the back
door, but the kitchen’s where the family that lives here is
hiding and they block the door.
It’s a pretty sensible change, because a few moments later, they get blown up:
The porch and the front of the house explodes into splinters.
Everybody in the kitchen is blown back.
Realizing there’s no getting out of the back door, the Bride
runs back into the living room that’s now missing a wall, and
runs up the home’s staircase leading to the bedrooms.
Blue Blood, Language Switches, & Another Cut Line
As you’d guess, Fortnite forgoed the rest of the trail of bloody murder for child-friendly violence; Shield fluid instead of blood.
They also gave Yuki more english lines, which isn’t exactly a script-change. In the script, Yuki only says “Bingo!“, “Okay“, and “You think you’re safe! I say; Ha!” in english. The rest is in “(Japanese)”, but since Tarantino doesn’t speak it, he wrote it in english.
You can see that here, along with another cut line about ‘undeveloped breasts’ (no wonder it got cut):
YUKI (JAPANESE)
“You fucking bitch! You shot me in my breast!
They’re not fully developed yet, you fucking asshole!
Now I’m always gonna have a dimple!”The Bride answers Yuki back with an imitation of Yuki’s
giggle, which makes the youngin blow her top.YUKI (JAPANESE)
Piss me off!
Yuki’s Death is the almost same.
There are a few, minor changes:
- The Bride rocks a 9mm, not a “Hand Cannon”, and it’s empty.
- Yuki doesn’t get ‘revived’, she’s just not dead.
- As Yuki charges back up the stairs, The Bride switches to her backup pistol in her ankle holster.
- Yuki falls dead once she lands on The Bride.
The Bride fires, but her gun jams…
Yuki leaps on her with the knife…
They struggle for a moment…
…TILL…
…The Bride realizes Yuki’s dead. She tosses her to the
side.THE BRIDE
Goddamn, what a wildcat.
Another lost scene & Nurse Owens
If you felt that there were questions left unanswered after Yuki get eliminated, that’s because it’s only part one of the sequence. Part two explains how the Bride survives five bullet holes and a neighborhood swarming with police.
The unfilmed scene includes:
- The Bride bleeding out in a kids’ treehouse at 1736 Dimmick Avenue.
- A new character, Nurse Owens (who reluctantly agreeing to perform illegal surgery out of sympathy (and for no small amount of cash).
- A bottle of Wild Turkey on the wounds and a lot of screaming.
Maybe we’ll see it animated in a part two, but probably not (they don’t have screaming and bullet wounds in Fortnite). Here’s the whole scene as Tarantino wrote it:
INT. NURSE OWEN’S HOME – NIGHT
The phone rings and a black woman in a nurse’s uniform with a name tag on it that reads, “B. Owens,” answers the phone.
NURSE OWENS
Hello.CU The Bride on her cell phone, a business card in her hand, with a number written on the back that says, “B. Owens,” and her phone number. She’s bleeding from her five bullet holes. Sitting in a pool of her own blood. She’s starting to tremble. We can’t see where she’s at, but it’s somewhere surrounded by wood planks. The moon shines into the structure.
THE BRIDE
Hello, I’m calling Nurse Owens —NURSE OWENS
Who is this.THE BRIDE
You don’t know me, but —NURSE OWENS
— And I don’t want to neither. Now I don’t know how you got my number, but you can just rip that shit up, because —THE BRIDE
— I’ve been shot five times —NURSE OWENS
— Stop, I don’t wanna hear no more. I got problems of my own.THE BRIDE
I’m dying.NURSE OWENS
Then bitch, you better call yourself a ambulance, cause I don’t do this shit no more.THE BRIDE
I can’t call an ambulance.NURSE OWENS
— No, you can call a ambulance, you just don’t want to. But if your ass is really dying, you ain’t got no motherfuckin choice.THE BRIDE
I do have a choice, and I’m choosing to call you. If you refuse to help me, I’ll die. And that will be your choice.NURSE OWENS
Bitch, I don’t even know you!THE BRIDE
What do you need to know? I’m from Earth, I’m a woman, I’m dying, and only you can help me.Her last line has an effect on the hard-hearted nurse.
NURSE OWENS
Okay, where you at?THE BRIDE
I’m in Hawthorne. I’m hiding in a kids treehouse. It’s a street called, “Dimmick”. 1-7-3-6 Dimmick Avenue. There’s a bunch of police cars and firetrucks, about two blocks away.NURSE OWENS
Whatcha do, crawl two blocks?THE BRIDE
If you can’t walk, you better crawl.Nurse Owens likes that last line.
NURSE OWENS
You got you some money dontcha, or am I doin this out of the goodness of my heart?THE BRIDE
You come and get me, today’s pay day.NURSE OWENS
You ain’t too far away. You gonna bleed to death I get there in a half a hour?THE BRIDE
Probably.NURSE OWENS
Okay, I’ll be there in fifteen minutes.THE BRIDE
Is that Pacific Standard Time, or C.P.T.?NURSE OWENS
Just you better be there when I get there, and you better be shot five times, and your bony ass better be on your last motherfuckin legs.THE BRIDE
How do you know I have a bony ass?NURSE OWENS
You sound like you have a bony ass.The Nurse hangs up the phone.
INT. TREEHOUSE – NIGHT
The Bride sits in her own blood waiting for Nurse Owens.
Nurse Owens’ head pops up from the door in the floor.
THE BRIDE
Glad you made it.NURSE OWENS
There’s cops all over here, I had to be cool. They tend to notice things like Negroes sneaking around people’s backyards.The nurse hands the Bride a big bottle of Wild Turkey.
THE BRIDE
What’s that?NURSE OWENS
This shit’s gonna hurt, and I ain’t got no anesthetic.
(refers to the bottle)
So git busy.INT. NURSE OWEN’S KITCHEN – NIGHT
OVERHEAD SHOT
The Bride laid out on Nurse Owens’ kitchen table, while the nurse extracts the bullets.The Bride screams.
The TV is turned up loud to hide the screams.
The fifth slug is placed in an ashtray next to three cigarette butts and other balls of lead.
The Bride, drunk as a skunk, says to her savior:
THE BRIDE
That fuckin smarts.Smoking her menthol Kool, Nurse Owens says:
NURSE OWENS
Yeah, bullets are bad news. In the future, you should avoid them if you can.THE BRIDE
I’ll keep that in mind. So, do I have a future?NURSE OWENS
You’ll live to kill again.THE BRIDE
Splendid.She passes out.
FADE TO BLACK.
In fact, there are a handful of lost scenes in the earlier script. If you want to read the Yuki’s Revenge scene for yourself, you can find just the scene here, complete with Tarantino’s famous spelling mistakes, or the whole Kill Bill script here. And you can check out one of the deleted scenes here too: