J.J. Abrams Producing Samurai Jack: The Movie
We’ve got a little bit of an update this week on the Samurai Jack feature film that was first announced back in 2007. As you may know, Genndy Tartakovsky is on board to write and direct a big screen continuation of his popular animated series for Frederator Films. As far as we know it’s the only project on his plate at the moment since The Power of the Dark Crystal was postponed indefinitely, but apparently the deal for Samurai Jack took quite a while to close. Here’s the good news: things are now moving ahead, and they’ve even got a pretty big name helping them out as a co-producer.
According to a post on the Frederator Films blog from back in September, J.J. Abrams revealed himself to be a huge fan of Samurai Jack and is now co-producing the movie through his company, Bad Robot Productions. Samurai Jack is also being distributed through Paramount Pictures, which helps guarantee that it will actually end up in theatres rather than getting dumped direct to DVD. Just to be clear, the movie is a “2D/stereoscopic 3D production”, which should maintain the look and feel of the original show. The modest budget will be somewhere in the $20 million range. Frederator also now has a deal in place with Sony, so they’ve potentially got a lot of other stuff on the horizon as well. Pretty exciting, right? Sound off in the comments below.
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Posted by aspioaokassodsøkasdkøl on November 19th, 2009That’s for the Samurai Jack movie news, not that JJ Abrams is making it.
Posted by aspioaokassodsøkasdkøl on November 19th, 2009It’s not going to be the same without Mako…
Posted by Morgan on November 19th, 2009Samurai Jack is so good.
Posted by Dom_G on November 19th, 2009All in for this!
Posted by Napalm on November 19th, 2009Best news of 2007-2009. Abrahms is pretty much forever in my good guy list. I’ll start keeping one now.
Posted by Ian on November 19th, 2009That is so awesome. Abrams is always golden.
Posted by Justice on November 19th, 2009….This is the greatest day of my life!
Posted by DTanza on November 19th, 2009Oh I so desperately want to see the end…………
Posted by Shl on November 20th, 2009Yay! I hope it doesn’t get ruined somehow! But still… YAY! <3 Samurai Jack.
Posted by Falsk on November 21st, 2009holy mip mopping mother mod this is stupendous ans fantastical
Posted by willm on November 30th, 2009What hapenned to Mako? Is he not onboard?
Posted by Ryan on November 30th, 2009Mako died.
Posted by Sue on November 30th, 2009Since Mako did recently pass from this world, they could get the person who’s voice replaced his on Avatar: the Last Airbender.
Posted by Rosencrantz on December 1st, 2009I thought the show had a final Aku battle and they could move on without him. Wrong?
Posted by Goon on December 1st, 2009I just eyegasmed!
Posted by Mycool on December 3rd, 2009I am very excited to see the samurai jack movie i am huge fan of the show and its a shame to see that show go off the air like that.
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