The vibes on your media shelves are about to get very cool, as Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill Vol. 1, Kill Bill Vol. 2, and Jackie Brown will all receive 4K Ultra HD SteelBook releases on January 21st, 2025.
The third and “fourth” films made by Tarantino (he counts both volumes of Kill Bill as one movie, though they’ll be sold separately) represent the director truly coming into his stride as an auteur. Jackie Brown, adapted from the Elmore Leonard novel Rum Punch, featured Pam Grier as a flight attendant drawn into a criminal enterprise. It was a career-revitalizing role for Grier, alongside an ensemble cast including Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, and Robert De Niro.
The Kill Bill saga featured Tarantino paying homage to some of his favorite genres, including martial arts movies, blaxploitation, spaghetti westerns, and more. Uma Thurman stars as The Bride (aka Beatrix Kiddo), a woman out for revenge after losing everything on her wedding day. The two-volume epic also starred Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen, David Carradine, Sonny Chiba, Julie Dreyfus, Chiaki Kuriyama, Gordon Liu, and Michael Parks.
Unlike other movies made by Tarantino, these three films were largely overlooked by the Oscars — the one exception being a Best Supporting Actor nomination for Jackie Brown’s Robert Forster. All three are essential parts of Tarantino’s filmography, though, and these new releases will include physical 4K Ultra HD discs as well as digital codes, so you can download or stream them anywhere. This will be the first SteelBook release of any kind for Jackie Brown — Kill Bill previously received a Blu-ray Steelbook release in 2011.
Additional, all three films will receive standalone 4K Ultra HD releases: Order Kill Bill Vol. 1 here; Vol. 2 here; and Jackie Brown here.
To find out how all three films compare to the rest of Tarantino’s filmography, check out our ranking of every Quentin Tarantino film to date. Updates are still pending regarding the filmmaker’s plans for his tenth and final movie.
