Tarantino doesn’t like a sequel to this great SF saga

In a fluke of calendars, in May 2003, Kill Bill: Volume 1 will be released in the United States on the same Friday as The Matrix Reloaded, the highly anticipated sequel to the first Matrix title that seduced the entire planet with $757.8 million. 103 million against the budget (inflation adjusted figures).

Tarantino is shaking. A blockbuster of this magnitude risks stealing all its potential records in the first part of its diptych tribute to the films that shook and built his cinephilia in the 70s and 80s: video club films. Then Tarantino saw The Matrix Reloaded and calmed down, as he confided to the media Vulnerability :

Above us was the sword of Damocles. I saw Matrix Reloaded in a Chinese theater the day it was released and walked out of the theater singing Jay-Z. I was like, “Damn, come on, was I worried about that?”

And when in 2009 Sky Movies Asked to share a list of his favorite films, the Pulp Fiction director talked about how Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions would, he says, have affected the Wachowski saga as a whole:

“There was a time when I thought The Matrix was my number 2 after Battle Royale. They destroyed the mythology and knocked The Matrix off my list, to be honest (…), they didn’t completely destroy it.”

That’s why Tarantino still holds the first Matrix in high regard, even though he clearly hated its sequels, which in his eyes diminished the impact of the original film. As for his thoughts on Matrix Resurrections, he hasn’t shared them (yet).

Tarantino has never been a big fan of sequels. This is evidenced by his filmography, as he always wrote original scripts, which were completed after the completion of the feature film. It is said that there is still a connected world of “Tarantini”, as fictitious signs and more or less direct winks connect his films.