As a child, the prince escapes destruction and travels the world training his mind and his body for years until he reaches adulthood, becoming a legendary samurai. This quotation begins each episode of Samurai Jack, which tells the story of a young prince (Jack) from Feudal Japan whose father's empire was destroyed by the demon Aku. Before the final blow was struck, I tore open a portal in time and flung him into the future, where my evil is law! Now the fool seeks to return to the past, and undo the future that is Aku!
See also: List of Samurai Jack episodesLong ago in a distant land, I, Aku, the shape-shifting Master of Darkness, unleashed an unspeakable evil! But a foolish Samurai warrior wielding a magic sword stepped forth to oppose me. Abrams Klasky Csupo Productions alongside Fred Seibert of Frederator Films and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. As of September 2009, the film was said to be in the writing stage of pre-production, co-produced by J. In an interview, Tartakovsky confirmed that " Jack will come back" and that " we will finish the story, and there will be an animated film." In 2007, the then newly formed production company Frederator Films announced in Variety that one of their first projects will be a feature film adaptation of Samurai Jack, written and directed by Genndy Tartakovsky. There had been plans for a Samurai Jack feature film in 2002 with Walt Disney Pictures, but this project was cancelled after the lackluster performance of The Powerpuff Girls Movie.
Samurai Jack began airing in August 2009 on Boomerang at 11:00 P.M (in place of Justice League Unlimited) until June 2011 but returned in September of that same year.
The first episode of the series was broadcast during the network's Toonami block on March 29, 2008, and continued airing the episodes in order each week until the programming block went completely off the air on September 20, 2008. The show made a reappearance on Cartoon Network's adult swim, based on results from a successful user poll, noted in bumps during programming on February 22, 2008. While airing, the series spawned a comic book and several video game tie-ins. The unaired episodes were later shown as a Toonami special, on Toonami Jetstream (on Cartoon ), and in re-runs. Despite its Emmy nominations and wins the show was taken off the air before the fourth season could complete its initial run. Samurai Jack began airing on Augand ran for four seasons.Ĭartoon Network ordered fifty-two episodes of Samurai Jack, which were aired as four seasons as a prime time member of the Cartoon Cartoon block of programming. As a follow-up to his successful series Dexter's Laboratory, Tartakovsky intended to create a series "that is cinematic in scope and that incorporates action, humor and intricate artistry". Samurai Jack was created by Genndy Tartakovsky for the Cartoon Network. The feature film was reported to be in pre-production as of 2009. In return, Tartakovsky has announced plans to direct a theatrical film, but whether or not it will resolve the series has yet to be announced.
Production on the show was halted in 2004, but it was never officially ended. Samurai Jack is no longer available to be viewed by American residents via the Toonami Jetstream website. Many of the battle scenes in the series are reminiscent of samurai films, and since Jack's robotic enemies "bleed" oil or electricity and monsters and aliens bleed slime or goo, the series is able to exhibit the action of these films while avoiding censorship for violence. The plots of individual episodes range from dark and epic to light-hearted and comic, but typically follow "Jack", a time-displaced samurai warrior, in his singular quest to find a method of traveling back in time. It is shown on its sister network Boomerang. It was the first Cartoon Network original series aside from those who comprised the Cartoon Cartoons lineup at the time. It is noted for its highly detailed, outline-free, masking-based animation, as well as for its cinematic style and pacing. Samurai Jack is an American animated television series created by animator Genndy Tartakovsky that aired on both Cartoon Network and Toonami from 2001 to 2004.