The Garbage Man wrote:Too bad Cartoon Network completely screwed the show over, never bothering to air it or even give closure with a proper send-off.
lujho wrote:Does anyone know why only the first 2 seasons were released on DVD and not the rest? I'm dying to see beyond season 2, and it's not on TV here.
colonel_lugz Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 10:13 am Post subject:
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Samurai Jack is great, my fave episode is where he teams up with the giant scotsman who has a machine gun for a leg.....madness
MadCapsule wrote:lujho wrote:Does anyone know why only the first 2 seasons were released on DVD and not the rest? I'm dying to see beyond season 2, and it's not on TV here.
I think they only made two seasons and maybe a couple of TV movies.
I absolutely loved Samurai Jack! No black outlines! There are so many geeky references to movies and cartoons and manga and other stuff that a drinking game could be made for this series.
Hmmm...
Gregg Kilday wrote:Frederator also has "Samurai Jack" in development at Paramount with Bad Robot Prods.
John-Locke wrote:I'd love to see more Samurai Jack, if they do make a feature I hope they bring back the Scotsman in a large role.
John-Locke wrote:Just found the episode, it was Episode 32: Jack and the Travelling Creatures, this one won an Emmy. Jack fights this unbeatable Morpheus dude who guards a time portal. The bit I'm talking about is right at the very end. I'm gonna watch the whole episode now, If I remember correctly it's one of the very best episodes, I'm sure you guys can find it somewhere online too but I'm not gonna link to it as it isn't on You Tube.
DAVE MCNARY wrote:"Samurai Jack," a feature version of the Cartoon Network skein. The creator, Genndy Tartakovsky, is attached to write and direct.
BuckyO'harre wrote:Greg Baldwin took over Uncle Iroh on Avatar after Mako's death.
However, Aku's voice is much more wild and raw so I don't know if he could pull it off.
Recordings might be best.
The Vicar wrote:BuckyO'harre wrote:Greg Baldwin took over Uncle Iroh on Avatar after Mako's death.
However, Aku's voice is much more wild and raw so I don't know if he could pull it off.
Recordings might be best.
I can do it. No, seriously. And if I can do it, I'm confident that they could find a deft, oriental voice actor to do it.
But I miss Mako, a truly cool cat all around. It would be a wrench to carry on without him.
As we zeroed in on how Frederator Films would approach animated feature filmmaking (D’oh! Put the talent first, the same way we did in TV!) I started hanging with the best talent we knew. And, at the head of the list was Genndy Tartakovsky.
That was a pretty easy decision. I was president of Hanna-Barbera when Genndy came to the studio as a key member of Donovan Cook’s 2 Stupid Dogs team. I greenlit his first Dexter’s Laboratory short, and he delivered one of the great cartoons in recent history. Then there was the DL series, also one of the greats. Samurai Jack and Clone Wars were after my time, but I watched Genndy grow as a filmmaker from afar, and I remembered Genndy as one of the best people I’d worked with in my entire career. Talented, smart, dedicated, relentless, amazing leader, moral, and fun. What a rare guy.
I set up the lunch with no expectations. After all, Genndy had just come out of a multi-year relationship with George Lucas, and had set up The Orphanage Animation Studios to develop his own feature films; what could Frederator offer him at this point? But, on the way I realized there was an opportunity. I immediately called Jim Samples, then-President of Cartoon Network, and right away he agreed to a first in the network’s history, granting of rights to an independent production company. They would grant Frederator Studios the animated movie rights to the hit TV series Samurai Jack, as long as we agreed that Genndy would be intimately involved. Agree?!!! How else could we be interested?
Genndy was thrilled when I delivered the news. He’d been disappointed that CN and New Line Cinema had abandoned the project (both animated and live action films) and felt he’d let his fans down. Here was the chance to finish what he’d started, and reclaim a special set of characters he’d created.
Without going into all the details, the deals took forever (forever!) to close (in fact, some of them still have dangling participles) and by the time we announced the formation of Frederator Films in June 2007 surprise was awaiting all of us. J.J. Abrams, a huge Jack fan, had agreed to be my co-producer on the picture (a 2D/stereoscopic 3D production) through his company Bad Robot Productions at Paramount Pictures. We knew that with JJ and his producing partner Bryan Burk we’d be in more than good hands and improve our chances tremendously of actually seeing the movie on the big screens.
After lunch with Genndy, and the success of starting our company with Samurai Jack, our talent approach to animated movies had a prayer. The unanswered question was “what next?”. In fact, that was really about 1000 questions.
–Fred
Borys Kit wrote:Tarsem Singh is the director behind Relativity’s new Greek god epic Immortals and next year's Lily Collins-Julia Roberts Snow White movie, Mirror, Mirror. What will he do next? At the Monday premiere of Immortals, Singh revealed his secret wish: to helm a live-action version of Samurai Jack.
Jack was an edgy and hyperactive animated show created by Genndy Tartakovsky that ran for three seasons on the Cartoon Network starting in 2001. It centered on a warrior from feudal Japan banished into the future by a shape-changing demon, with the warrior battling aliens and robots as he tries to find a way back. The show was known for its varied art styles, the use of split screens and multi-angles, and for long sequences that were dialogue free, all of which contributed to it winning four Emmys.
Singh told The Hollywood Reporter he has little interest in comic book movies but “I love Samurai Jack. I would love to direct that.” He said it’s the epic style, pace and art that he admires.
“It’s brilliant. The speed, it embraces where it comes from. I find that comic strip films are halfway grounded. They don’t play my chord. But I love Samurai Jack. I love the animation," he said.
A live-action version of Jack was actually set up at New Line in the early 2000s, with man-in-the-news Brett Ratner attached to direct and produce, but the rights have since reverted back to Cartoon Network.
“Have them contact me,” Singh said. You hear that, CN execs?
For his follow-up to Mirror, Mirror, however, Singh will probably to do a movie that rejects the visually intense nature of the films that so far have made his reputation.
“I want to do a talking-head movie like My Dinner with Andre or like an early (Roman) Polanski like Knife in the Water. I want to go there because now all everyone wants to think is that I want to do visual films," he explained
One reason he took on the Snow White movie was that it was a family adventure, a departure from the blood-spslattered and hard-R nature of Immortals. “Now the next thing to do is a movie that doesn’t have the spectacular in it,” he said, even though he thinks switching genres will only lead to a pay cut.
“When you do something that they think is in your style, people will write a big check for you, and if it’s not your style, they’ll go, ‘Oh, no, he might sink us’ and cut your rate. But if you don’t change it up early in your career and force people to redefine how they see you, when will you?”
Christina Radish wrote:Will there ever be a Samurai Jack animated feature or live-action movie?
TARTAKOVSKY: It’s still around. Every year, somebody new picks it up who tries to push it through. I feel like, with Jack, it’s a funny curse. People like it for A, B and C, but as soon as they want to make it, they say, “Well, we can’t do A, B and C.” But, those are the key ingredients that make it successful. Once somebody comes along and just says, “I want to make it for what it is,” then it will get made. But right now, every time we try to run it up the flagpole, it never sticks.
DAVE TRUMBORE wrote:Outstanding Short Format Animated Program
Adventure Time – “Islands: Part 4 – Imaginary Resources”
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation (Juried)
Samurai Jack (Craig Kellman, Character Design, “XCII”)
Samurai Jack (Scott Wills, Production Design, “XCIII”)
Samurai Jack (Bryan Andrews, Storyboard, “XCIII”)
Samurai Jack (Lou Romano, Background Design, “XCV”)
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