I have no idea what on earth is about to happen with Fortnite in Chapter 7 here, but apparently it involves a whole lot of…Kill Bill?
As leaks began trickling out that Uma Thurman’s The Bride would be a skin, it turns out this was much more than a one-off IP crossover, the way 95% of Fortnite additions are. That seemed pretty clear when both Uma Thurman and Quentin Tarantino showed up to a Fortnite-branded Zero Hour/Kill Bill event, complete with a “Meow Wagon” on the red carpet. What is going on here?
This is, as you might expect, a giant form of advertising. Kill Bill was first released in 2003, but now, 22 years later, Volumes 1 and 2 are being combined for Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, which will be released on December 5 after Fortnite’s Chapter 7 launch.
Fortnite has actually attached a unique skin to this whole endeavor, Gogo Yubari, an antagonist from one of The Bride’s most memorable fights in Vol. 1. You buy a ticket between November 20-29, then you get a code for that ticket. Sign in to Epic, redeem the code, and you get the skin on your account.
This gets even weirder! Fortnite has released a new promo for Chapter 7 that is titled Yuki’s Revenge: Fortnite After Dark. The image shows Yuki Yubari with an Uzi in a sports car, and this is all a reference to a chapter that was originally in Vol. 1 that was cut from the film. After The Bride kills Gogo, her sister, Yuki, goes to America to hunt down The Bride. It was never actually filmed.
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Now it’s going to be in…Fortnite? Or has it secretly been filmed and added to The Whole Bloody Affair? Is it an apparent animated sequence in the film that will tie into Fortnite? In any case, it seems like this collab is up to three skins, both Yubari girls and The Bride, that we know about. Some have pointed out that Uma Thurman’s real-life husband Ethan Hawke was just added to the game as The Grabber from Black Phone. Then, we just missed having a full family set as Robin Hawke was unfortunately left out of the upcoming Stranger Things collab.
This is all very funny and so…random. It’s also created a scenario where a game very much aimed at kids is now telling them to go see one of the bloodiest modern action movies for a skin. Of course, you can just buy the ticket and go or not go, that’s all they really care about.
My biggest question is if this lost chapter is only a Fortnite thing or f we are definitely getting the lost chapter onscreen And I guess we can also see if we get Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained or Reservoir Dogs skins (and obviously one specific emote) coming up here. We can no longer rule anything out once you see Quentin Tarantino show up at a Fortnite event.
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