In his career as a filmmaker, Quentin Tarantino hasn’t made any sequels (except for Kill Bill: Volume 2, though it’s usually counted as one with the first movie), but that doesn’t mean that he hasn’t had plans for sequels and spinoffs of some of his movies – and here’s every unmade Tarantino movie sequel and spinoff. Quentin Tarantino has earned the respect of critics and viewers over the years, though he has also been in the middle of controversy multiple times, in big part thanks to the violence in his movies, which has also been key to his success. Tarantino’s career as a filmmaker began in 1992 with the crime movie Reservoir Dogs, and his big break arrived two years later with Pulp Fiction.
The quality and success of Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction opened many doors for Tarantino in the film industry, and since then, he has explored a variety of genres in his movies – from martial arts with Kill Bill to slasher with Death Proof and even alternate versions of history with Inglourious Basterds and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Tarantino has a very peculiar style as a writer and director, and his movies stand out for his mastery in writing dialogue, visual narrative, and for having generous doses of violence and blood, but he has also become known for not making sequels and teasing a variety of projects that never see the light.
Tarantino has only directed nine movies so far (again, both Kill Bill movies are counted as one), but he already has a long list of unmade movies of all kinds – from original stories to sequels and even continuations of well-established franchises, such as a Star Trek movie and an adaptation of David Morrell’s novel First Blood. Among those many unmade projects are a couple of sequels and spinoffs to some of his movies, and here’s every unmade Tarantino movie sequel and spinoff.
Double V Vega
Tarantino almost connected his first two movies, Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, in the spinoff prequel movie Double V Vega. All Tarantino movies are part of the same universe, which is divided into two levels, so there are some characters that are connected to each other. The first connection in the Tarantinoverse is between Reservoir Dogs’ Vic Vega (Michael Madsen) and Pulp Fiction’s Vincent Vega (John Travolta), who are brothers, and they could have starred in their own movie. Double V Vega would have taken place before the events of both movies, taking the audience to Amsterdam when Vincent Vega was there running “some club for Marsellus”, as he explained in Pulp Fiction. Vic, then, would have visited his brother, but Tarantino didn’t get past that initial idea.
Kill Bill: Volume 3
One of Tarantino’s most anticipated yet unstable potential projects is a third Kill Bill movie. Although Kill Bill: Volume 2 brought The Bride’s (Uma Thurman) arc to an end as she finally fulfilled the mission of killing Bill (David Carradine), it still left the door slightly open for a continuation. Tarantino has spoken about a third Kill Bill movie since 2004, and at one point, he said he would wait a decade before making it in order to give The Bride and her daughter some peace. The story details that Tarantino has shared about Kill Bill 3 so far are about Vernita Green’s daughter, Nikki, who has been raised by Sofie Fatale, looking for revenge against The Bride for her mother’s murder – but there’s also B.B, The Bride and Bill’s daughter, who would surely defend her mother. However, in June 2021, Tarantino said Kill Bill 3 hasn’t happened yet due to his reluctance to take on more Kill Bill movies after the fatigue he endured in the making of the first two.
Kill Bill anime and animated movies
During the production of Kill Bill, Tarantino envisioned two different animated movies: an anime one and one in traditional animation. The anime Kill Bill movie would have followed The Bride during her time in the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, and the other movie would have told the origin story of Bill. Tarantino later made Grindhouse, and while the reasons why these projects never happened haven’t been revealed, it’s probably for the same as Kill Bill 3.
Grindhouse 2
In 2007, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez brought Grindhouse, a double feature formed by Rodriguez’s Planet Terror and Tarantino’s Death Proof. Tarantino shared in 2007 his plans for a Grindhouse sequel, and his segment would have been an “old-school Kung Fu movie in Mandarin with subtitles in some countries” and a “shorter, dubbed cut in others”. As of 2022, Grindhouse 2 hasn’t happened and there have been no updates from either Tarantino or Rodriguez.
Killer Crow
Inglourious Basterds tells an alternate version of World War II and follows two plots: that of Aldo Raine and The Basterds, and the one of Shosanna Dreyfus, but in the original script, there was a third plot. In 2012, Tarantino explained this third plot followed “a bunch of black troops” that were done wrong by the American military and were ready for revenge. These troops were on an “Apache warpath” and would have killed “a bunch of white soldiers and white officers on a military base”, making their way to Switzerland. The troops would have eventually met the Basterds, and the tentative title for this project was Killer Crow. The movie would have been the third entry in Tarantino’s Basterds/Django trilogy, and while a reason for it not happening wasn’t revealed, it probably was due to Tarantino moving forward with The Hateful Eight and other projects.
Django/Zorro
In 2015, a crossover comic book of Django Unchained and Zorro, appropriately titled Django/Zorro, was published, co-written by Matt Wagner and Tarantino. In 2019, Tarantino picked Jerrod Carmichael to co-write a movie adaptation of Django/Zorro, with Tarantino and Jamie Foxx expressing interest in having Antonio Banderas reprise his role as Zorro, but like many other projects, there haven’t been further updates, and the project has been mostly forgotten.
Bounty Law & Lancer
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood introduced viewers to Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), an actor struggling to stay relevant during the final years of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Dalton was the star of the 1950s Western TV series Bounty Law, which is briefly seen in the movie, and in 2019, Tarantino expressed interest in creating a proper Bounty Law TV series. Although Tarantino already had the outline for various episodes, in 2021 he said Bounty Law was unlikely to happen for a couple of years. Later, Quentin Tarantino shared he hopes Robert Rodriguez will turn Lancer, another Rick Dalton project, into a movie, but there haven’t been any news on that.
