Director Quentin Tarantino has hinted that he may follow up Kill Bill with another sequel – but he wants to make a comedy first.

Speaking at the Rome Film Festival, Tarantino said he has “no idea” what his next film will be. But a long-awaited Kill Bill sequel could be in the mix. “Why not?” he said when asked whether his next film would be Kill Bill 3.

Before continuing the Bride’s story, Tarantino admits that there are a few things on his to-do list. Speaking to Fabio Fazio of Italian state broadcaster RAI (via Variety) he confirmed he has a few other projects in the mix, including a book of film criticism and a TV series.

“But first I want to make a comedy,” he said.

Back at the Rome Film Festival, he described one upcoming project to festival chief Antonio Monda that takes an unexpected turn into the light-hearted. “It’s not like my next movie,” he said. “It’s a piece of something else that I’m thinking about doing — and I’m not going to describe what it is. But part of this thing, there is supposed to be a Spaghetti Western in it.”

The project has since been described as a comedy spaghetti western but little else is known about it at this point. “I’m looking forward to shooting that [thing] because it’s going to be really fun,” he said. “Because I want to shoot it in the Spaghetti Western style where everybody’s speaking a different language.”

“The Mexican Bandido is an Italian; the hero is an American; the bad sheriff is a German; the Mexican saloon girl is Israeli. And everybody is speaking a different language,” he explained. And you [the actors] just know: OK, when he’s finished talking then I can talk.”

Tarantino revealed in 2016 that he plans on retiring from filmmaking once he’s released 10 films – with his latest film Once Upon A Time in Hollywood as his ninth.

It’s unclear which project is next for Tarantino, but it sounds as though both his unannounced comedy spaghetti western and Kill Bill 3 are in the running. If it is going to be Tarantino’s final film, a Kill Bill sequel feels like a very fitting end. Tarantino's previously confirmed that he's met star Uma Thurman to discuss a third film, saying, "f any of my movies were going to spring from one of my other movies, it would be the third Kill Bill."

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Spoilers follow for Chucky's second episode, "Give Me Something Good to Eat," which aired on Syfy on Oct. 19.

After a premiere which got things off to a strong start, Chucky resets the status quo with a more plodding second episode. “Give Me Something Good to Eat” finds Hackensack reeling from a pair of grisly murders carried out by Chucky (Brad Dourif), who’s still playing his cards uncharacteristically close to his chest. Where the premiere did a good job of introducing its new setting, this week it seems less adept at moving both the characters and the overarching story forward.

It’s a week on from Luke’s shocking death at the hands of Chucky, and Jake (Zackary Arthur) has moved in with his wealthy relatives across town. It’s not Jake’s tragedy, but he and Chucky’s ventriloquism performance at the talent show has Jake’s classmates buzzing. It’s enough social cachet to get him an invite to the big Halloween party. You know the one: impossibly massive mansion, parents away for a weekend in London, dozens of drunk kids, the one we never got invited to and we’re not still bitter about — that mansion. It’s clearly not Jake’s scene, but some encouragement from crush Devon (Björgvin Arnarson) gets him to roll the dice on attending. Jake and Devon’s budding relationship is still in its early stages, but Arthur and Arnarson’s chemistry and quiet admiration for each other is one of Chucky’s strong suits. For being set on Halloween, and for as popular in Hackensack Devon claims it is, this week’s episode doesn’t really use the holiday as more than window dressing.

“Give Me Something Good to Eat” spends more time with Junior (Teo Briones) and Lexy (Alyvia Alyn Woods), as Chucky’s targeting of Lexy starts to raise flags with Jake’s cousin. This subplot, while being useful for fleshing out Junior and Lexy’s home lives, drags the episode down. Their paper-thin relationship and mutual disdain for Jake make it hard to sympathize with Junior’s conflicted feelings about his dad’s management of his athletic career, or with Lexy’s feeling invisible to her parents. It’s especially tough to feel bad for Lexy, whose Halloween costume of Jake’s dad mid-electrocution was astoundingly cruel. At this point, Chucky’s use of Breakfast Clubian teen archetypes feels like cutting corners on creating unique characters, so it’ll be worth keeping an eye on whether the show uses those tropes as a springboard to do something new. Either way, developing side characters enough to where the world of the show feels lived in while not straying too far from the story’s slasher roots is going to be a tough line for the show to walk.

The series continues to make good use of Chucky, even though his big, early kill was a bit underwhelming thanks to a truncated build-up. “Give Me Something Good to Eat” does drift a little more towards the campy Chucky of the ‘90s, with Chucky sneaking off to the big party by putting a mask on and going trick-or-treating to blend in. But the most interesting thing about Chucky so far is that, despite the fact that we’re learning more about Charles Lee Ray’s history, the doll is being used squarely as a way of exploring what’s going on in lead character Jake’s head.

The episode’s best scene is a simple conversation between Jake and Chucky, where Jake’s sexuality prompts Chucky to share that he’s a father to a queer kid himself, a callout to 2004’s Seed of Chucky, which makes me wonder how they’d update Glen/Glenda for a world just slightly more attuned to gender identity politics than it was 17 years ago. Chucky’s acceptance of Jake (“I’m not a monster, Jake”) represents an earnest connection between the two, held in tension with the fact that Chucky is using Jake’s insecurities against him, pushing the kid towards the self-righteous brutality for those who “deserve it” that he’s become an expert in.

Chucky as an avatar for another character’s emotional journey is a dynamic the Child’s Play series has dabbled in, but it’s working here better than it has in past installments, thanks in no small part to Arthur’s strong performance. Chucky’s return to his hometown is still shrouded in mystery. The episode opens on a flashback to Charles Lee Ray’s childhood, showing him happily taking a bite out of an apple he knows has a razor in it (because he’s crazy, get it!?), but with nothing to connect this vignette to the main story, it ends up feeling redundant. We already know Charles Lee Ray’s out of his mind; eating sharp fruit belabors the point a bit too much. Here I am criticizing a show about a serial killer who voodoo’d himself into a doll for excess.

Epic Games Publishing has announced two new studio partners: Spry Fox (Cozy Grove) and Eyes Out (the new studio from Spec Ops: The Line creative director Cory Davis, and Nine Inch Nails guitarist Robin Finck).

Announced today, Epic says that the partnerships should "empower developers of all sizes to take chances and create their most ambitious dreams." It follows Epic's partnerships with Remedy (which recently released Alan Wake Remastered and is rumoured to be working on Alan Wake 2), Inside developer Playdead, and genDESIGN (headed by Ico, Shadow of the Colossus and Last Guardian creator Fumito Ueda).

Spry Fox's new game is described as its biggest ever, a "multiplatform nonviolent persistent multiplayer title". Spry Fox previously made Cozy Grove, a game we described as Animal Crossing with more story, and less capitalism. The announcement came alongside new (and lovely) concept art for the game:

We had previously heard about Eyes Out's first game, described as a single-player, immersive cosmic horror game with an emphasis on environmental storytelling. Epic says that it gave a grant to Eyes Out to create a prototype, and that's been subsequently extended to a full partnership.

Both new games will be built in Epic's Unreal Engine. As with previous partnerships, Epic promises "full creative freedom, complete IP ownership, and favorable financial terms."

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The Suicide Squad director James Gunn has explained why he felt the DC movie's original ending was "too dark" to make the final cut.

Gunn had "carte blanche" to kill off any character he wanted in his R-rated film but there was one character death that he ultimately decided to bury because he felt it would result in an ending that was "too dark." Gunn had originally contemplated killing Daniela Melchior's Ratcatcher 2, however, he opted to change the scene before submitting the final script.

The filmmaker recently outlined the details of how that original ending would have played out. "At the very end of the movie, Ratcatcher 2 had… smuggled in and gotten away with all of that information from Jotunheim, and the rest of the group didn't know about it," Gunn told CinemaBlend. "And [Amanda] Waller blew up her head, after they went back to the prison."

"At which point, Harley tries to talk Bloodsport — Bloodsport's freaking out, because he's connected to this person, like a daughter. And he's freaking out, and Harley is actually being sort of kind, in a weird way, trying to talk Bloodsport into just letting it go," Gunn continued, recounting The Suicide Squad's scrapped sequence.

"Bloodsport ends up shooting Waller in the heart with a combustible bullet and threatening to blow her up. It was sort of complicated, but it was something like that. He didn't shoot her in the heart. He shot her right below the heart with one of the exploding bullets, which we see Peacemaker using earlier in the movie. And so now she has to do what he says."

Melchior's character is arguably the heart and soul of The Suicide Squad, the least violent and most compassionate of the outcasts populating Task Force X. In the film's actual ending, Ratcatcher II — and her beloved rat Sebastian — survive the devastation of Corto Maltese and have a chance at a new life thanks to Bloodsport's climactic blackmailing of Waller.

The alternate ending presented a much darker version of events. "It was really just too dark," Gunn concluded. "It didn't really tell the story that I wanted to tell, which is much more about the characters' different journeys, emotionally. And for me, really, the ending with Bloodsport petting the rat… that, to me, was the perfect ending for the movie."

IGN's review of The Suicide Squad scored the supervillain blockbuster a 9/10, saying: "James Gunn absolutely kills it with The Suicide Squad. The film is a bloody, chaotic ride from start to finish that finally does justice to Task Force X. It's endlessly shocking and funny, and its showcase of F-list DC villains is nothing short of brilliant."

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Chris Ayres, a prolific voice actor best known for his work as the voice of Frieza in many Dragon Ball projects, has died, aged 56.

The news was announced on Twitter by girlfriend Krystal LaPorte, who said Ayres had "passed away peacefully, held close by his mother, brother, and girlfriend," on October 18. No cause of death has been announced.

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— Krystal LaPorte (@WowSuchKrystal) October 19, 2021

Ayres has provided voice acting for anime series for decades, but became best known for his work as Frieza. Ayres replaced original English language actor Linda Young, and provided Frieza's voice in Dragon Ball Z Kai, Dragon Ball Super, Dragon Ball: Xenoverse, and more. In 2018, Ayres required a double lung transplant and stepped down for the role, but reprised it for Dragon Ball Super: Broly.

Thousands have offered their condolences on Twitter already, including Dragon Ball studio Toei Animation, Vegeta voice actor Christopher Sabat, and Broly voice actor Vic Mignogna:

May you rest in peace Chris Ayres, a magnificent voice actor who brought many wonderful characters to life including our Frieza.
You will always be remembered. Thank you for everything. pic.twitter.com/tLrYaudsxK

— Toei Animation (@ToeiAnimation) October 20, 2021

The anime industry lost a living angel today. It’s impossible to describe how pure Chris Ayres was, and his dedication to his craft was unmatched. Knowing Chris, he’s still at the gates of Other World, explaining something clever to the maître d’. #RIP, Frieza. 😢 pic.twitter.com/rN7bjBLlGT

— Christopher Sabat (@JustChrisSabat) October 20, 2021

Deeply saddened to hear of the passing of friend, Chris Ayres. Went to visit him in the hospital when I was in Houston for Matsuri in July & was reminded of his amazing spirit & determination. Much love & prayers to his family & friends. We’ll see you again in glory, dear Chris❤️

— vic mignogna (@vicmignogna) October 20, 2021

All of us at IGN offer our condolences to Ayres' family and friends.

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