Epic Games just announced one of its craziest collaborations to date: this Sunday, November 30th, 2025, Fortnite players will be able to watch a short film directed by Quentin Tarantino himself on the platform as part of the Kill Bill promotional tie-in with Chapter Seven. But this isn’t just any short film — it is actually an unproduced segment from the original draft of Kill Bill that never made it to the big screen.
The script for this Lost Chapter — originally meant to take place after “Chapter 5: Showdown at House of Blue Leaves,” which caps off Kill Bill Vol. 1 — has floated around the internet ever since, becoming a long-time fixation amongst hardcore Tarantino fans. Now, 22 years later, “Yuki’s Revenge” will become a reality through Unreal Engine, Epic Games’ proprietary game engine, and their global battle royale shooter.
What is The Lost Chapter: Yuki’s Revenge?
“The Lost Chapter: Yuki’s Revenge” follows The Bride/Beatrix Kiddo (reprised in voice acting/motion-capture by Uma Thurman herself) and her violent encounter with Yuki Yubari, the young, vengeful sister of Gogo Yubari. Gogo, of course, is the 17-year-old personal bodyguard of O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu), formerly known as Cottonmouth. The demented Japanese teenager dies at the hands of The Bride right before she takes down the rest of the Crazy 88 yakuza gang in Kill Bill Vol. 1. In Quentin Tarantino’s early draft of the script, the joke was that both Gogo and Yuki served as O-Ren’s bodyguards, but the latter was sick the night of the House of Blue Leaves showdown and was forced to miss out.
As The Bride then travels to Los Angeles to take out the next member of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, Vernita Green/Copperhead (Vivica A. Fox), the increasingly deranged Yuki follows close behind. Taking direct orders from Bill (who Tarantino voices in the short, taking over from the late David Carradine), Yuki is hellbent on getting revenge for her sister Gogo’s death. Earlier this month, DiscussingFilm was invited to the Vista Theatre in Los Angeles, where we were shown the entire short alongside a behind-the-scenes reel detailing the creative process, as well as an in-person Q&A with Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman.
Collaborating with Epic Games and The Third Floor Inc.
At the event, Quentin Tarantino explained the journey of taking “Yuki’s Revenge” from page to screen. When Epic Games approached him for a Chapter Seven collaboration, with the new season taking on a Hollywood/cinema theme, he assumed it would be a request to license his iconic characters. However, getting the opportunity to use their technology to make the lost chapter of Kill Bill felt like a more purposeful and authentic collaboration. “Bringing this into Fortnite sounded cool and felt like a wonderful fit for the game world,” Tarantino shared. “I was waiting for when the time was right, and Fortnite was right — something cinematic inside a much bigger world.” Yes, this was Tarantino’s idea through and through.
Tarantino worked directly with The Third Floor, an independent VFX house founded by a group of artists who worked together on the Star Wars prequels under George Lucas himself. The studio, named after the third floor at Lucasfilm, previously utilized Unreal Engine as a rendering tool for this year’s feature-length animated film, Predator: Killer of Killers, on Hulu. Shooting on a bare soundstage, using a headset with cameras and dots on the actors’ faces, precise motion-capture data was translated into highly detailed facial animation — while the actors and Tarantino got to see an instant rendering of how the scene would look in real time.
The Lost Chapter of Kill Bill, Brought to Life in Fortnite
The short itself is gorgeous, finding a middle ground between the Fortnite art style and a lower frame rate, with shallow depth of field. It emulates the cinematic look that Sony’s Spider-Verse franchise popularized in recent years. As mentioned, the short was created using motion-capture technology, with animators going in to refine certain movements and facial expressions in post-production to reach a good balance of expression and exaggeration that fluid animation requires. Uma Thurman slips right back into the role of The Bride, and even in animation, Tarantino’s aesthetic shines through. Zoë Bell, the New Zealand stuntwoman and longtime Tarantino collaborator who served as Thurman’s stunt double on both Kill Bill movies, also returned to shoot the stunts in mo-cap.
What makes watching the short particularly surreal, however, is that it entirely takes place in the world of Fortnite, featuring cameos from the franchise’s mascots like Jonesy, Peely, and the Skull Trooper, character models directly from the game, and brand-new locations that will be explorable in Chapter Seven. Instead of blood, the characters glow blue and turn into digital cubes. Plus, The Bride is seen riding the Battle Bus! The contrast between Tarantino’s air of prestige and the aesthetics of Fortnite makes for an odd pairing, but as a cute promotional tie-in, it’s all harmless fun.
The Lost Chapter: Yuki’s Revenge Premieres Sooner Than You Think
In all seriousness, it is fascinating to see what a classically styled director like Quentin Tarantino can do with modern storytelling tools usually associated with only video games. “The Lost Chapter: Yuki’s Revenge” will premiere on Fortnite on Sunday, November 30th at 2 PM ET. This weekend marked the end of Chapter Six with the Zero Hour event (in which The Bride made her first appearance in the game) and the beginning of Chapter Seven.
Additionally, the short will be attached to screenings of Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair — a newly restored cut combining both volumes of Kill Bill into one movie, as it was always intended to be seen. The Whole Bloody Affair releases in theaters nationwide on December 5th, 2025, via Lionsgate. Tickets at participating theaters will also include a code to unlock a Gogo Yubari skin to use within Fortnite.
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair hits theaters on December 5!
