Craig Kellman, the main character designer Darrick Bachman, who helped me write the stuff and Bryan Andrews, who’s been storyboarding with me from Samurai through Sym-Bionic Titan through the Hotel Transylvania movies - they also came back. Scott Wills and I have been doing stuff in and out. We’ve been working with each other since the original days of Samurai Jack. I mean, luckily I found people that are so good at what I don’t do. What was it like reassembling the Samurai Jack brain trust? Many of the people interviewed in Adult Swim’s preview are familiar names from the show’s original run. The same core idea I had then is what we’re doing now.
In the movies, especially back then, they wanted a completion. I realized, “Oh, this is the way I would want to do it.” There was all this various interest in doing a Samurai Jack movie, where I would reinvent the show and finish it in the same movie. It popped up first probably a couple of years after I finished the show. How long has this ending been in your mind? So we decided to just quietly finish the fourth season. I realized, “I don’t want to rush out an ending.” I didn’t even know what the ending was back then. And then we were getting Star Wars handed to us. The network didn’t know what they wanted to do, I didn’t know what I wanted to do. But at the end of the fourth season, we were all burnt out. He had to come back at some point if he had a hope of finishing his quest, and I always wanted to finish it.
Yeah, even initially, because we made such a big deal about Jack’s origin, and all these people in his life that were left to suffer and die, basically. Was it important to you from the beginning to give this story a definitive end? It was always understood that those shows would be left open-ended, there would never be a resolution. Samurai Jack always reminded me of 1980s shows about regular people pulled into a science fiction or fantasy world, like Blackstar, or Dungeons & Dragons, or the live-action Buck Rogers. I recently talked to Tartakovsky about where he drew the line in creating his newly violent, graphic wrap-up series, why 12 years of technological upgrades haven’t changed Samurai Jack much, and how he dealt with the 2006 death of Mako, the Japanese actor who provided Aku’s memorable voice in the first run of the series. Haunted by visions of the family and friends he left behind, he’s slowly losing his mind and his will to live. He’s exhausted and furious over the endless, fruitless war against Aku’s robot minions. Fifty years has passed, and because Jack was pulled out of time, he isn’t aging. (It’ll be online at 10:30PM ET the same day.) Samurai Jack was always a stylish, emotional, thrilling show, but now it’s moved to the late-night Adult Swim block and it’s become a much darker, sadder, angrier series. But he spent years pondering a final season of Samurai Jack, which would finally resolve Jack’s story.Ĭartoon Network finally agreed to let him make season 5 of the show, a 10-episode miniseries that launches on Saturday, March 11th at 11PM ET.
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And after Jack, he became the animation director of the Star Wars animated spinoff series Clone Wars, he co-created and directed the series Sym-Bionic Titan, and he broke into film by directing Hotel Transylvania and its sequel. Tartakovsky had a busy career in animation before Samurai Jack: he was one of the original directors on The Powerpuff Girls, and he created the animated series Dexter's Laboratory. Jack was still stuck far from his own time, fighting the shape-changing, world-conquering demon Aku.
But it wrapped up in 2004 with no real conclusion. His stylish animated series, about a feudal Japanese samurai stuck in a dystopian far future launched in 2001, and ran for four seasons on Cartoon Network. Writer-director Genndy Tartakovsky promises the new season of Samurai Jack is the last one.
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