Netflix has tapped John Wick helmer Chad Stahelski and Raising Dion executive producer Leigh Dana Jackson for an adaptation of Marc Olden’s 70s blaxploitation novels Black Samurai, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed.
Olden’s Black Samurai books were published in the 1970s and follow Robert Sand, an American soldier in Japan who learns the way of the samurai as he embarks on a mission of vengeance and subsequently embarks on globe-trotting adventures.
The books were previously adapted for the big screen in 1977, with Enter the Dragon’s Jim Kelly starring in the title role as Robert Sand, a.k.a. the Black Samurai.
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Details on Netflix’s take on Black Samurai are being kept under wraps, but Stahelski is set to take on directing duties on the film, while Jackson will write the script. Stahelski is also producing through his 87Eleven Entertainment banner along with John Schoenfelder and Russell Ackerman of Addictive Pictures.
