SAMURAI JACK Featurette Shows New Footage and the Creator Discusses Jack's Final Journey in Season 5
The upcoming fifth season of Samurai Jack will also be its final season. That's hard for me to comprehend! As a longtime fan of Samurai Jack, I've been waiting for the character's return. Now he's finally coming back and the story will show us Jack's final journey. If you saw the most recent trailer, you know that Jack will be fighting his way out of a hellish situation.
We have some new footage for you to check out as well in a new featurette that was released. That video also includes creator Genndy Tartakovsky talking about bringing back Jack for his last adventure and the use of cinematic sound and music to bring that story to life.
Also, during a recent interview with Empire, creator Genndy Tartakovsky talked about what we can expect to see from the final chapter in the series. He teased that it will be his most ambitious and emotionally mature work he's ever done, which is pretty exciting to hear. He said:
“It's the final journey; whatever happens at the end is going to happen. One of the reasons I'm doing this is that for the past ten to 15 years, when I speak at schools or do press, the first question always is, 'Samurai Jack — are you going to finish the story?' And so I decided that before that interest goes away, I should just do it. We're doing ten episodes and it's one story.
"It's his journey, but it's pretty epic. Not just emotionally, but the journey that he takes. And there's this overall theme that's more complex and contemporary that I think people can pick up on if they really analyze it. I think it's a lot deeper then anything I've ever done.”
When talking about the challenges of doing something so epic, he explained:
"Luckily we got pretty much everybody back who did the original show. But the hardest thing is us, because we're so ambitious and our ideas are so big, they're so hard to do in television. TV is all about schedule and budget, and you're always fighting that. We've got these ideas and they're hard to execute and they're creative, which is exciting. And that's really the challenge; we can only work so many hours. I was thirty when I did Jack. I'm forty-six and those late nights are brutal now, where before I'd be, like, no problem."
The fifth and final season of Samurai Jack will premiere on Adult Swim on March 11. While we wait for that, you can watch the trailer again and be reminded of the complete badassery that awaits us.