Samurai Jack: MTV Interviews Genndy: "Jack will come back"

TsubasaSyaoran
[1]Oct 15, 2006
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Can't believe I didn't notice this earlier:
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1541895/story.jhtml
9/28/06:
In only five years, the tales of "Samurai Jack" have revolutionized action cartoons, captured the eye of Hollywood, launched a few careers and subsequently been largely forgotten. According to series creator and god of geekdom Genndy Tartakovsky, the proposed live-action movie starring the time-traveling samurai has indeed stalled. "It kind of got lost in Hollywood a little bit," the writer/director/animator sighed. "I have a very strong idea for 'Jack,' and I want to stay faithful to it. In Hollywood, the first thing people want to do is change things, and so the best thing happened to it — it died." Instead, the proudly stubborn Tartakovsky is excitedly planning to oversee the faithful version he's always insisted upon while putting the Japanese warrior back into his ink-and-pencil trappings. "Jack will come back," he promised, "we will finish the story, and there will be an animated film." With Tartakovsky hard at work on a "Dark Crystal" sequel, he added that any success with that film might someday yield the live-action "Jack" he'd still like to see made. "If I make a hit movie, I can pretty much do then almost just what I want," he grinned. "If Bryan Singer wanted to do 'Samurai Jack,' they would say, 'Sure! Do "Samurai Jack." ' ... I did television, now I have got to do film, and then after that who knows?" Tartakovsky further added that the recent conclusion of his "Clone Wars" cartoon also marked the end of his collaboration with George Lucas, and that he'd have nothing to do with the "Star Wars" TV projects in development. "No," he commented. "I am all done." ...
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TAMKFan
[2]Oct 16, 2006
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Samurai Jack is coming back with new episodes? Yay!
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TsubasaSyaoran
[3]Oct 16, 2006
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Not exactly, Genndy said "animated film" so I assume he's aiming to finish the series once and for all with a film sometime in the future.

However, there's a lot of questions that come from this interview:

Will CN be involved? Will it be a theatrical release?
Will the old VA's return?
If so, who will replace Mako?
Do we have an idea of when production will start?

And so on. But the good news is, we have confirmation that Genndy wants to finish the series and that he will, eventually.
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CrazyCurtis05
[4]Nov 5, 2006
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thats really good news
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beowulf579
[5]Nov 8, 2006
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I have a feeling Jack is going to be the more older version the time portal showed in the episode that had Jack getting beat down by a guardian.
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TsubasaSyaoran
[6]Nov 9, 2006
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beowulf579 wrote:

I have a feeling Jack is going to be the more older version the time portal showed in the episode that had Jack getting beat down by a guardian.

Yeah that makes sense, they'll probably also cover how he got to that point.
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ElJorro
[7]Nov 30, 2006
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I really do hope that means there will be new episodes, but still an animated movie is good news.
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dumb_person1
[8]Dec 17, 2006
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this was a great show.
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Avanthera
[9]Dec 31, 2006
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Wow!! I can't wait for the new episodes or the movie at least to air!! It was an awsome show!!
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gaara257
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I cant wait either it will be great.
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DisturbingMoose
[11]Jan 20, 2007
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I'd love to see the final battle between Jack and Aku in the animated film! That would be awesome! They have already proved that they can handle feature length films with the powerpuff girls movie, and episodes like XXV show what they are truly able to do
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TAMKFan
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Yeah, we need a final battle between Jack and Aku!
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ashman2
[13]Feb 22, 2007
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This was by far one of the best shows ever. I remember at school I watched it without telling anyone, and then in final year it turned out that like 20 other people all watched it and none of us talked about it. There was a proper little cult following for this. It rocked.
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