Member DragonClaws Posted November 10, 2018 Member Share Posted November 10, 2018 YASUKE: Lakeith Stanfield To Voice The Legendary Black Samurai In New Netflix Animated Series Link- https://filmcombatsyndicate.com/yasuke-lakeith-stanfield-to-voice-the-legendary-black-samurai-in-new-netflix-animated-series/ Wasnt rapper/filmaker RZA, attached to producing this at one time?. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member whitesnake Posted November 13, 2018 Member Share Posted November 13, 2018 On 11/10/2018 at 6:37 AM, DragonClaws said: Wasnt rapper/filmaker RZA, attached to producing this at one time?. That was a different Black Samurai project, based on the series of novels by Marc Olden, to star Common. https://deadline.com/2017/08/black-samurai-series-common-star-starz-jerry-bruckheimer-ep-1202153765/ There is no mention of Black Samurai on Common's IMDB page. Strange that two Yasuke projects should be in the news so close together. Netflix - https://www.netflix.com/title/80990863 - says Yasuke "came from Africa and fought alongside a mighty feudal lord [Oda Nobunaga] in brutal 16th century Japan. They called him the Black Samurai, and he became a legend." Yasuke: Descendants, a film project from Calvert David Miles, was announced in July 2018 at - https://filmcombatsyndicate.com/la-set-timeless-black-samurai-revenge/ - about Yasuke, his rivalry with Akechi (Oda's brother), and a mystical sword split between them, then passed down to their fictional descendants in modern day L.A. A plot synopsis is at the Yasuke: Descendants IMDB page - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7239162/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl The Indiegogo campaign to fund the movie isn't doing very well. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/yasuke-descendents#/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member whitesnake Posted April 20, 2019 Member Share Posted April 20, 2019 While there are no new updates on the Netflix Black Samurai series, here's a 2019 online article about Yasuke, covering some earlier Black Samurai in films, novels, and comic books, and updates - covering books about Yasuke (such as a 2019 book, African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan), recent comic book projects, film projects (including Blood of Yasuke and Yasuke: Descendants), as well as the Netflix series. The article is at - http://www.thelastdragontribute.com/yasuke-black-samurai-upcoming-projects/ And an update about a Yasuke movie, titled Yasuke, that is probably a third Yasuke movie. "MGM will mount Yasuke, an action film that is based on the true story of history's only recorded African samurai in feudal Japan. Stuart C. Paul has written the script and Whalerock Industries' Lloyd Braun and Andrew Mittman are producing. The latter has joined the exec ranks at MGM and will steer the project." From https://deadline.com/2019/04/yasuke-mgm-african-samurai-film-1201904332/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member AlbertV Posted May 7, 2019 Member Share Posted May 7, 2019 A live action film is being done as well...Chadwick Boseman is starring and producing the film.https://variety.com/2019/film/news/black-panther-chadwick-boseman-samurai-yasuke-1203207699/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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