Everything changed in 2015 when Cartoon Network revealed that Samurai Jack season 5 would be airing as part of its Adult Swim programming block, at some point in the future.
The popular kung fu/fantasy TV series that is Samurai Jack was created by acclaimed animation storyteller Genndy Tartakovsky (creator of Dexter’s Laboratory and director of the Hotel Transylvania movies) and ended its original four season run all the way back in September of 2004.
Both official artwork and interviews with the creative personnel involved with the show’s revival (including, Tartakovsky as an executive producer) have since then been released, but without any word on when, exactly, Samurai Jack‘s new season will premiere.
For years thereafter, however, there were discussions of a Samurai Jack movie adaptation; with either filmmakers such as Tarsem Singh (Immortals, Emerald City) expressing interest in tackling the project or Tartakovsky himself expressing his desire to bring Jack’s time-traveling adventures to life on the big screen.