16th Century Black Samurai, Yasuke, Poised For Feature Film At Lionsgate, Gregory Widen Scripting
Browse on social media long enough in the last few years and you might have come across a few factoids about an African Samurai named Yasuke who served under lord Oda Nobunaga in 16th century Japan. The exact details about Yasuke’s story aren’t clear and take a few different directions, but that isn’t stopping Lionsgate from positioning itself in development for a feature-length iteration of the new movie, Black Samurai. Thus, they have tapped screenwriter Gregory Widen to provide the script for Mike De Luca and Stephen L’Heureux to produce as a co-production between Solipsist Films and De Luca Productions. As Deadline reports, Widen has established his own ideas about the direction in which to take the now brewing script which not only approaches Yasuke’s emergence as a samurai, but some of the explicit, dark and gruesom trials and tribulations of being black-skinned in a region of the world where […]