He's Back, Jack

There's a new movie being produced you may not have heard about. See, a couple of years ago this great animator came up with the brilliant idea of a feudal samurai trapped in the future. This future is (somehow) ruled by an entity so evil he might be called black-hearted, if he had one. The samurai doesn't really try to stop the entity so much as try to get back to his own past. For if he does that, he can stop the evil there, thus preventing him from conquering the future.

I hope by now you've figured out I'm talking about Samurai Jack. This will be the second property of Tartakovsky's to be developed into a feature length movie, but there is no word yet on how, when, or where it will be shown. It might be a direct-to-DVD thing, they might try and release it in theatres, or it may be shown on TV. This last might be a little more problematic then you might think as this project is not connected with Cartoon Network in anyway. Tartakovsky has joined up with former Hanna-Barbera president and The Fairly OddParents producer Fred Seibert's new company Frederator Films. Along with Jack, Frederator announced two other projects, The Neverhood, based on the DreamWorks video game, and a hip-hop project called The Seven Deadly Sins. Interesting side note about that, Doug TenNapel is on board to write and direct. TenNapel is probably best known for creating Earthworm Jim, but also created The Neverhood, and writes comics, among them, Tommysaurus Rex and Creature Tech.



-Dan