Samurai Jack’s Back
Samurai Jack was Good Shit. Probably because it was made by Genndy Tartakovsky (although I won’t go into my 2-D animated Clone Wars spiel here), and he does good work. Which is why, even though this was announced on a blog by a little known film production company called Frederator, the news that Tartakovsky would be writing and directing a Samurai Jack film in the near future spread far and fast.
The flick will be 2-D and “stereoscopic” 3-D, supposedly, and will be produced by Samurai Jack fan J.J. Abrams, which ain’t bad at all. I’m not jumping up and down in bliss, but I always enjoyed Samurai Jack, and I’d love to see what Tartakovsky can do on the big screen.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.