Kill Bill 20th anniversary: Will Quentin Tarantino make Vol.3?

Quentin Tarantino is close to retiring from filmmaking as he prepares to make his 10th and final movie.

The visionary director has said for years that his 10th project would be his last before he moves on to writing books, both fiction and non-fiction.

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Tarantino confirmed that the final movie is titled The Film Critic and will focus on a movie writer working in the 1970s.

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It is for that reason that we won't see a third Kill Bill movie. Tarantino has only ever produced one sequel in his career and that was Kill Bill: Vol.2, though most fans generally count the pair of movies as one, at least when counting the filmmaker's 10 movies.

Fans have long campaigned for a third movie and have even done some dream casting, with Uma Thurman's real-life daughter Maya Hawke joining the cast as her daughter in the Kill Bill world, while Zendaya had been earmarked for playing the daughter of Vernita Green, whom The Bride killed in Kill Bill Vol.1.

Tarantino himself has unfortunately said it won't happen.

"I don't see that. My last film is about a film critic, a male critic," he told DeMorgen. "And he plays in the 70s."

This comes after an interview in 2002 in which Tarantino teased a potential third Kill Bill.

"I can't really tell you anything about it. I mean it has been discussed over the years," he said on The Jess Cagle Show.

"There was real thought about it happening, but very long ago. I don't see it as immediately on the horizon."

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Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

The Bride (Uma Thurman) is shot at her own wedding by her boss Bill and his henchmen. A bullet to the head puts her in a coma for four years, but when she wakes up she begins plotting her revenge against Bill and the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad.

Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Stars: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu and Vivica A. Fox

Who will star in Tarantino's final movie?

Tarantino will be looking closely at which actors out there could potentially take on the role in The Movie Critic, but he has narrowed down the search by saying that it will be someone he has never worked with before, which rules out the likes of Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio and Michael Fassbender.

"I haven’t decided yet but it’s going to be somebody in the 35-year-old ballpark. It’ll definitely be a new leading man for me," he told Deadline.

"I do have an idea of somebody I can imagine doing it really well."

When asked if he would consider a British star for the role, he replied:  "No. The truth of the matter is, yes, obviously, a Brit could pull it off, but I don’t want to cast a Brit."