Chadwick Boseman to Star in Samurai Drama 'Yasuke'
10:23 AM PDT 5/7/2019 by Etan Vlessing
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The 'Black Panther' star is set to play the first black samurai to serve a warlord in Japan in the period action pic.
Chadwick Boseman is set to star in the action dramaYasuke as an African samurai warrior, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Boseman will play the role of a Yasuke, the Japanese name for a samurai of African origin who fought under a Japanese warlord Oda Nobunaga during the 1580s. The period action drama is based on the historical tale of the only known African to reach the samurai ranking in feudal Japan.
"The legend of Yasuke is one of history's best kept secrets, the only person of non-Asian origin to become a Samurai. That's not just an action movie, that’s a cultural event, an exchange, and I am excited to be part of it," Boseman said in a statement.
The Yasuke movie adaptation will be produced by Eric Feig's Picturestart, De Luca Productions, Solipsist & X●ception Content. Michael De Luca and Stephen L’Heureux earlier were developing the film as a co-production between Solipsist Films and De Luca Productions in partnership with Lionsgate.
De Luca, L’Heureux, Boseman and Logan Coles will now share the producer credits. Doug Miro (Narcos) is penning the screenplay for the period drama.
Boseman, who is repped by Michael Greene & Associates and Management 360, also appears as T'Challa in Black Panther and Avengers: Endgame.
Chadwick Boseman to Star in Samurai Drama 'Yasuke'
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The black samurai.
ComorianKid
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An African should have been casted for this role, considering that ados dont want us playing them.
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Heard they were also doing an anime movie or something awhile back
might have to check this out.
Been waiting on this for a minute
Tom Cruise was the white samurai, so why not?(Obligatory Paul Mooney joke.)
Tom cruise was fiction tho Yasuke actually existed. Lol I still got the alt right mad about this somehow
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It's an AMERICAN production fakkit
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Word? Good to know. I'm a Chadwick fan so I'll more than likely be watching this.
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It's an AMERICAN production fakkit
Hollywood is owned by white Americans and foreign investors so dont be mad when cac americans cast non ados as ados. Ados does not own hollywood.
Word? Good to know. I'm a Chadwick fan so I'll more than likely be watching this.
Only westerner to achieve the rank of Samurai. No white or other black man did that and he did it under Oda Nobunaga who was Japan's greatest warlord
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That's dope!
I've been waiting on a movie about Yasuke for a while!
I've been waiting on a movie about Yasuke for a while!