With Quentin Tarantino still discussing his possible retirement after ten movies (he’s up to eight with The Hateful Eight), it’s starting to look like the third Kill Bill may be set to go the way of The Vega Brothers and other “lost” Tarantino projects.

However, earlier this month the filmmaker said that Kill Bill Vol. 3 is a “possibility”, and now he’s given fans another glimmer of hope during an interview with Variety.

“I’m not committing to it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if The Bride made one more appearance before the whole thing is said and done. I am talking to Uma about it just a little bit. Some of the stuff that I’d written that never made it into the movie that maybe I could use.”

Kill Bill Vol. 1 was released in 2003, with Kill Bill Vol. 2 following in 2004, after which Tarantino teased the possibility of a third movie which would see Nikki – the daughter of Vivica A. Fox’s Vernita Green – out for revenge against Uma Thurman’s Bride for the death of her mother.