Genndy Tartakovsky’s new animated film Hotel Transylvania 2 was released earlier this week, and 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”!
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. “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. Unless it airs under Cartoon Network’s “adult swim” block, a new TV series would be pointless. Since “Samurai Jack” ended its first-run episodes, we have seen series such as “Samurai Champloo,” “Afro Samurai” and “Afro Samurai Resurrection.” The show has mined every ounce of TV-PG material available, and even recycled some bits. A new series would have to up its game to the TV-14, or dare I say TV-MA rating. In other words, we need to see red blood, not black motor oil. On the other hand, a full-length feature movie, one which would properly conclude this story, would be ideal. It could even be rated PG, or PG-13 – just as long as we have a satisfying ending to this saga.