In the early 2000s, Quentin Tarantino made the Kill Bill movies, a pair of films about an assassin known simply as the Bride (Uma Thurman) who goes on a bloody quest for revenge after her former coworkers shoot up her wedding and leave her for dead. The end of the second movie leaves things kinda open; Uma Thurman has indeed killed Bill, her old boss, and driven off into the sunset with their young daughter, B.B. But there are still people out there who want the Bride dead.
Fast forward a couple decades later, and Uma Thurman’s real-life daughter Maya Hawke is a star in her own right; she blew up thanks to her role as Robin on Stranger Things. Tarantino has always been pestered with questions about whether he might make a third Kill Bill movie about B.B., and with Hawke’s ascent, the questions are coming more furious than ever.
For a while, the director sounded like he might entertain the idea, but lately he’s saying that his next film will be his last, and it’s not Kill Bill 3. “I don’t see that happening,” Tarantino told De Morgen, a newspaper in Belgium. Instead, his tenth and purportedly final film is a 1970s period piece “about a film critic, a male critic.”
Watch the trailer for Stranger Things stage play The First Shadow
Will Tarantino stick to that line? Who knows? In the meantime, Hawke is doing fine on her own; she recently starred in the Wes Anderson movie Asteroid City, and the fifth and final season of Stranger Things is due out on Netflix next year…or at least it is if the Hollywood writers strike ends sometime soon and the crew can get to work.
In the meantime, there’s a very different kind of Stranger Things story on the way: The First Shadow, a theatrical play set years before the events of the mainline show back when Hopper and Joyce are in high school and Vecna is a budding young psychopath, is coming to the stage. Watch the trailer:
#StrangerThingsOnStage will take you right back to the beginning of the Stranger Things story – and it might hold the key to what comes next... 🔥 pic.twitter.com/3y9waLiG9j
— Stranger Things (@Stranger_Things) July 5, 2023
“The beginning of the Stranger Things story might hold the key to what comes next.” Well, that’s one way to get fans to buy tickets.
Stranger Things: The First Shadow will arrive at the Phoenix Theater in London’s West End later this year. Barring catastrophe, it’ll probably open on Broadway sometime after that.
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h/t The A.V. Club