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.
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Dan said:
Samurai Jack is one of my favorite shows off all time. This is exciting news, especially since I thought it would never happen and there are some decent people involved.
I swear, if this ends up turning into a shit pile of a movie, I might never recover.
Captbob! replied to Dan:
Just hope for the best.... we all will die a bit inside if its a giant turd....
I was just talking about this show too. This was one of the biggest disappointments when it got dropped before it ever finished. It left poor jack trapped in the future never to find aku for more than a few moments at a time only to have something happen that lets the evil thing get away every time. At least with this it might finish the story. (Just hope they top the first major fight in the show, jack vs the army of evil beetle thing. Never did better than that one.)
Stacie said:
Hell yes.
Stacie said:
though who will do aku's voice now?
jestergoblin replied to Stacie:
Good question.
It better be a spot-on soundalike or just reuse of old dialogue, since he never says much new.
AlexB replied to jestergoblin:
The soundalike they used for his character in Avatar should work fine. He was a great replacement in that show.
Arcane replied to AlexB:
I cried at the "In memory of" card in Book 2
96Eclipsed replied to Stacie:
They can get the guy who replaced Mako as Uncle Iroh from Avatar: The Last Airbender, Greg Baldwin..
AlexB replied to 96Eclipsed:
Woops, uh...yes, you said it first, haha.
tredlow said:
Whoa, Abrams? Really? Gonna be interesting, and in 2D like it should be, AWESOME!
tredlow said:
Whoa, Abrams? Really? Gonna be interesting, and in 2D like it should be, AWESOME!
Friginator said:
Awesome. One of the best cartoons ever made. Wish it had gone on longer, though. Still, with BOTH Genndy Tartakovsky AND J.J. Abrams, there's no way this cannot be amazing.
RobP said:
This is the best news I've gotten in any otherwise shit-tastic week. Love me some Samurai Jack. I hope the Scotsman returns, in some capacity, as well.
@Rob: What's your beef with the 2-D Clone Wars cartoons that Tartakovsky made? They're the only decent thing that was borne from those messy prequels...
Lo Pan said:
SO down with this.
Kaoy said:
I know that they were all evil-robots-that-just-happened-to-be-able-to-bleed(ERTJHABs for short) because of censors and such, but the series was still awesome. Just like 'Key Blade and not sword' of Kingdom Hearts, it took it's crazy censoring and ran with it and made it so damn awesome that you would almost be willing to believe that it was that way from first inception.
[P.S.- Rob, I know you have been getting stricter with people imitating others, so I just want to say that, in case this tripped and codded flags or anything, I have switched e-mail addresses and that I am not imitating myself.]
Kevin said:
I'm jumping up and down in bliss! It's about time this happened. And J.J is involved, too? Awesome.
SpiderHyphenMan said:
Mako, the voice of Aku, died a few years ago. It won't be the same without him.
Kevin replied to SpiderHyphenMan:
So true, but I don't see that as a reason not to go forward. Hopefully, they'll find someone who can imitate him well. Samurai Jack at the least deserves some kind of resolution to its story.
doc said:
OK I think I need to lie down after hearing this.
I shit you not, my first reaction upon seeing this news was to spontaneously start rubbing my nipples.
I didn't even realize I was doing it until I went to scroll down and saw that my hand wasn't on my mouse.
yamieridani said:
I wonder if we'll find out Jack's real name.
Arcane replied to yamieridani:
It's Jakku no Samurai
AlexB said:
It's worth pointing out that Frederator is a long-established studio. It's just films they're new at.
96Eclipsed said:
This is incredible news. Both my son (8) and my daughter (2 1/2) love Samurai Jack. We re-watch seasons 1 & 2 over and over and never get tired. I was even showing my son the opening scene of Yojimbo and how it influenced Samurai Jack down to several scenes and music...
Ahriman said:
Urgh-I hate Abrhams but Yay Jack...So torn.
Tyler said:
Awesome!
Wonder Pigeon said:
If this is true, its great news. Samurai Jack was quality stuff.
ZeroCorpse said:
I always liked SJ better than Tartakovsky's Clone Wars. It was just more suited to his over-the-top style.
Gleeman said:
FUCK and YES! With a HELL YEAH on the side.
And 2D Clone wars >>>>> 3D Clone Wars, hands down.
MrMacMan said:
i know its an easy mistake to make but the '2D Clone Wars' done by Tartakovsky's isnt the one you have commented on in the past and hate.
http://www.treksf.com/podcast/clonewars2.jpg
vs.
Current, dumb and silly looking 3D crap:
http://www.baltimoremagazine.net/maxspace/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/clone-wars-01.jpg
I still think back to Tartakovsky's version of General Grevious where he took out something like 5 jedis in a single episode including the first Jedi by way of stomping him into the ground, his metal claws crushing him.
Then cut to movie where he is useless or the 3D version... where he is dumb.
thepandabetweenus said:
Oh man, YES. Samurai Jack is one of my very favorite shows ever--I've been waiting for the movie, which I think was intended to be made to close the series since shortly after it was canceled, since I heard the first rumors and now it's happening and it's going to be TOTALLY AWESOME.
jedieb said:
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SJ and the Timm Batman cartoons are neck and neck for my all time favorite animated series. I can't wait for this animated movie to finally tie Jack's story. If they're clever enough, they could probably use old series dialogue to get Aku done. But it's going to be an interesting challenge.
Yakko said:
I think Frederator makes "The Fairly Odd-Parents," an underrated toon on Nickelodeon.
Yakko said:
I think Frederator makes "The Fairly Odd-Parents," an underrated toon on Nickelodeon.
