![]() 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. 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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