How annoying. I just finished Watching Samurai Jack from start to finish and really hated the lack of closure. I'm absolutely dying to know what happens next. Does Jack succeed in his quest, return to the past and defeat Aku? Does he defeat Aku but remain in the future? Could Aku actually win? Surely this wonderful story couldn't end on an episode so detached from Jack's main quest. So off I went on a quest of my own; searching for an answer, combing the internet for any viable piece of information.
There appears to be both good news and bad news. What's the bad news? Samurai Jack was cancelled, there is no officially announced conclusion and it is unlikely to return. The man behind the show, Genndy Tartakovsky, is no longer part of Cartoon Network. Even more unfortunately, the voice actor for Aku, Makoto Iwamatsu, passed away in 2006.
The good news? Back in 2007, former Hanna-Barbera president Fred Seiber, announced on his blog that together with J.J Abrams and the guidance of Tartakovsky, a Samurai Jack feature film was to be produced. Seibert's company, Frederator Films, now owns the rights to the series and apparently has a $20 million budget for the production. A press release from late 2009 reported that the film is in development at Paramount Pictures with Bad Robot Productions. News appears to have slowed recently but there is no news of cancellation and IMDb still hints at a 2011 release. Fingers crossed!
The best fan-made teaser I could find.
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