What We Know So Far About the Netflix Movie Black Samurai

Black Samurai

Netflix has teamed up with John Wick director Chad Stahelski to create a live-action adaptation of Marc Olden’s Black Samurai books, increasing its action film portfolio. John Wick talent + samurai sounds like a winning combination for Netflix action programming. Chad Stahelski, who directed the critically acclaimed John Wick films starring Keanu Reeves, will direct Netflix’s Black Samurai. Stahelski most recently directed the Netflix film Day Shift, starring Jamie Foxx. Leigh Dana Jackson, whose credits include Netflix’s Raising Dion and Foundation, wrote the script.

In 2017, a Black Samurai TV series was in development at Starz, with Common cast as both the show’s producer and lead. That endeavour never materialised, and eventually it was transferred to Netflix. Along with Jason Spitz and Alex Young for 87Eleven Entertainment and John Schoenfelder and Russell Ackerman for Addictive Pictures, Stahelski will also serve as producer. Along with Liza Fleissig and Andre Gaines of Cinemation Studios, Diane Crafford will serve as executive producer. Here is everything else we know about Black Samurai on Netflix:

The storyline of Black Samurai?

Black Samurai on Netflix is a live-action version of the same-titled novel series by Marc Olden, as was already established. There are eight books in total, with the first movie probably adapting the first one. An overview of the plot of Black Samurai is given below:
“While on leave in Tokyo, American soldier Robert Sand is shot while attempting to save an elderly man from a group of four inebriated troops. As Sand collapses, the elderly guy charges his tormentors and pummels them to death with his brittle, wrinkled fists. Sand will soon join the ranks of Master Konuma, the guardian of the samurai’s long-held secrets. The American studies martial arts, swordplay, and stealth over the course of the following seven years, becoming not only the first black man to take the samurai oath but also the strongest fighter Konuma has ever trained. Two dozen terrorists ambush the dojo one evening, killing Konuma and his pupils as the opening act in a terrible assault on world peace. Sand escapes with his life and a nagging need for vengeance even though he is unable to save his sensei. He only has his sword, but that’s all he really needs.

Who is in the cast of Black Samurai?

As of October 2022, no cast members for Netflix’s Black Samurai had been announced. Because the initiative is still in its early stages, we should hear some news in the next months.

When will Black Samurai be available on Netflix?

Netflix’s Black Samurai is now in its early development stage, with the project’s crew writing the narrative as we speak, with pre-production to follow.
Netflix hasn’t disclosed any release dates for Black Samurai, but given its early development stage, we can presumably expect it in late 2023 or 2024.

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