Brett Ratner to direct Live Action SAMURAI JACK movie!!!!

Hey folks, Harry here... Variety is announcing that Brett Ratner has a deal to direct a live action version of SAMURAI JACK!

Ok, now for anyone who as even blinked at that masterful animated series on the Cartoon Network, you know that first and foremost it is about mythology and motion. Plot tends to take a back seat to the eternal quest to defeat AKU.

The second I saw that pilot, I knew this was going to be a movie. It just screamed to be done. The thing is, there is an inherent ANIMATED quaility to the show... the epic one against thousands type of imagery is key to the animated show. To translate this to live action, you need that same energy and endless sense of... OHMYGODHEISSCREWED!!!! That you get from an episode.

The hardest part about a Live Action SAMURAI JACK is finding the new young asian Toshiro Mifune. I watch tons of Hong Kong films, I don't believe I've seen him yet.

The script for this could be wondrous, with nearly no dialogue at all. Like CONAN THE BARBARIAN or the seemingly doome TO THE WHITE SEA by the Coen Brothers.

For NEW LINE to wrap up this property... is INCREDIBLY SMART. To further commit to the Fantasy Genre on an epic scale. To build an identity that is continuing to move in a cool and under-developed area by other studios. Now if only they'd get a JOHN CARTER OF MARS movie going with Peter Jackson. Ahem....

Hey... "Moriarty" here. Just to clarify, Michael Fleming actually mentioned that there are TWO films being developed by New Line. One will be animated, and the other will be live-action. Looks like Genndy Tartakovsky will be writing, as well, so at least it'll be faithful. Genndy's a busy boy these days. Deserves it, too.