{"id":148,"date":"2008-10-09T16:59:54","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T21:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/?p=148"},"modified":"2010-07-30T20:10:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T01:10:51","slug":"samurai-jack-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/?p=148","title":{"rendered":"Samurai Jack Movie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I was reading <a title=\"PiVisuals was right... this time\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2008\/10\/looks-promising-it-does-not\/\" target=\"_blank\">an interesting commentary on the new <em>Star Wars: Clone Wars<\/em> animated series<\/a> and it got me thinking: what is Genndy Tartakovsky, the directory of the (much better) original <em>Star Wars: Clone Wars<\/em> animated series, doing nowadays?\u00a0 He also created <em>Dexter&#8217;s Laboratory<\/em> and <em>Samurai Jack<\/em>, plus was involved pretty heavily in the <em>Powerpuff Girls<\/em> series (in other words, he&#8217;s created a lot of great material).<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Genndy\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genndy_Tartakovsky\" target=\"_blank\">His wikipedia page<\/a> mentions that he formed his own animation company and they are working on a sequel to <em>The Dark Crystal<\/em>.\u00a0 Honestly, I only know of that movie because The Crystal Method used a sample from the intro for their song <a title=\"Buy this!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000W27B1M\/ref=dm_mu_dp_trk1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1223588820&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Trip Like I Do<\/em><\/a> (great song, great album).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, back to the point.\u00a0 Although that new movie is his primary focus, a new production company has been formed, <a title=\"What kind of name is Frederator?\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frederator_Films\" target=\"_blank\">Frederator Films<\/a>, which plans on first working on a <a title=\"Warning: robot carnage ahead\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cartoonnetwork.com\/tv_shows\/samuraijack\/\" target=\"_blank\">Samurai Jack<\/a> movie.\u00a0 Genndy will write and direct it, and it will end the story of Samurai Jack.\u00a0 For those that don&#8217;t know, the series never gave Jack a chance to get back to his own time and destroy Aku.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t know who Jack is or why he&#8217;s trying to destroy Aku, get your hands on the DVDs or click on over to the Cartoon Network site and watch some episodes for free!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I was reading an interesting commentary on the new Star Wars: Clone Wars animated series and it got me thinking: what is Genndy Tartakovsky, the directory of the (much better) original Star Wars: Clone Wars animated series, doing nowadays?\u00a0 He also created Dexter&#8217;s Laboratory and Samurai Jack, plus was involved pretty heavily in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}