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Gotta get back,
Back to the past,
Samurai Jack,
Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack.
If those lyrics (or some form of them) are playing in your head then chances are you grew up watching Samurai Jack on Cartoon Network. The tale of a Japanese Samurai with an English name that gets sent to the future by a tyrannical demon whose name sounds like a sneeze, this show was probably one of the best pieces of animation to have been produced for its time, earning four Emmys during its run on TV.
However, as fans of the show know, Jack’s story never finishes. The series halted production after 4 seasons with an unresolved ending, leaving fans yearning for more, and turning it into a cult hit. While the story continued in various forums in the mode of fan fiction, the show’s actual creator, Genndy Tartakovsky, speculated about carrying on the show, stating in interviews “I feel like it’s time to maybe finish the story. We’ve been trying to get the feature off the ground but maybe that’s just fate’s way of saying this is a television thing and maybe it should be a mini-series or something like that.”
Well, after more than a decade since the ceasing of it’s production, Samurai Jack will make its way back onto the screen and into our hearts, with a new season aiming to be released in 2016 on Adult Swim. The show is already in production in Los Angeles at the Cartoon Network studios and is expected to return during Adult Swim’s Toonami block, with Genndy Tartakovsky executively producing.
