Genndy Tartakovsky is Still Trying to Bring SAMURAI JACK Back
Genndy Tartakovsky's new animated film Hotel Transylvania 2 was released earlier this week, and I've been hearing great things about it. I just haven't had a chance to see it yet. It was also recently announced that we would be seeing a Hotel Transylvania 3, but he won't be back to direct that sequel, as he's got a bunch of other projects that he'd like to work on. Hopefully, one of those projects ends up being Samurai Jack!
I love Samurai Jack, and it would be amazing to see it make a comeback! Right now there's a wave of TV shows being adapted into movies, movies being adapted in TV shows, and TV series being revived as TV series. I think Samurai Jack is popular enough to be successful however it's presented. During an interview with ComicBook.com, Tartakovsky reiterates how much he wants to bring Jack back, and that it could be in the form of a movie or TV series revival:
“I think through the years, after we finished Jack, almost every year it seems like Samurai Jack has gotten more and more popular and more and more people have seen it. I feel like it’s culminating to a fever pitch almost. I feel like it’s time to maybe finish the story. We’ve been trying to get the feature off the ground but maybe that’s just fate’s way of saying this is a television thing and maybe it should be a mini-series or something like that.”
It is time to finish the story! It's been that time for a while. I'd be happy to see it come back as a movie or a TV series. All that matters to me is that it happens. Hopefully, someone in Hollywood will finally see the light and let him do this thing!
A few months ago, we posted a fan-made CG animated short for Samurai Jack that generated some excitement. You can check that out here in case you missed it. We also previously did a Movie Dream Team column that you can read here.