Yasuke (TBA) - Chadwick Boseman to Star as African Samurai

[AlbertV]

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/black-panther-chadwick-boseman-samurai-yasuke-1203207699/

Black Panther himself, Chadwick Boseman, is now going to be the Black Samurai as he will produce and star in Yasuke, which centers on an African man who arrived in Japan in 1579 in the service of an Italian Jesuit and served under the Japanese warlord Oda Nobunaga. He was captured in a battle in 1582. According to legend, Yasuke is the only person of non-Asian origin to become a Samurai.

Narcos” co-creator Doug Miro is writing the script. Alongside Boseman, Erik Feig and Michael DeLuca are also producing. An animated series of the story is also in the works for Netflix with Lakeith Stanfield voicing the titular character.

 

[OpiumKungFuCracker]

Hope they make it like a classic chanbari toei studios type samurai film. That would be badass. and subtitles too unless Yasuke knew how to speak English during the 1500s. 

[thekfc]

Here is an interview with Thomas Lockey, a co-authors of the recent Yasuke: The Black Samurai bio/novel.