Warner Bros. has landed The Coloration Purple director Blitz Bazawule’s subsequent challenge, which takes on the legendary Yasuke, an African warrior who grew to become the primary Black samurai.
A report from Selection states that Warner Bros. beat out three different studios and streamers’ bids on the script, tentatively titled Black Samurai, which Bazawule wrote on spec and can direct and produce below his Inward Gaze banner.
After impressing the trade together with his 2018 debut The Burial of Kojo, helming episodes of Ava DuVernay’s Cherish the Day and dealing with Beyoncé on her feature-length visible album Black Is King, Bazawule made his main studio debut with 2023’s The Coloration Purple.
The Ghanaian filmmaker, who introduced his distinctive visible language to the Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg-produced musical film, is claimed to have completed the identical together with his tackle Yasuke, an African warrior who served below Japanese daimyo Oda Nobunaga in the course of the Sengoku interval of samurai battle in sixteenth century Japan.
As a substitute of a conventional biopic, the movie invokes shades of 300 and Mad Max. The precise plot factors are nonetheless below wraps.
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