Warner Bros. Lands ‘Black Samurai’ (Yasuke) Movie From ‘The Color Purple’ Director Blitz Bazawule

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Warner Bros. Lands ‘Black Samurai’ Movie From ‘The Color Purple’ Director Blitz Bazawule (EXCLUSIVE)

In a competitive situation, Warner Bros. has landed “The Color Purple” director Blitz Bazawule’s next project, which takes on the legendary Yasuke, an African warrior who became the first Black samurai.

Sources tell Variety that Warner Bros. beat out three other studios and streamers’ bids on the script, tentatively titled “Black Samurai,” which Bazawule wrote on spec and will direct and produce under his Inward Gaze banner.

After impressing the industry with his 2018 debut “The Burial of Kojo,” helming episodes of Ava DuVernay’s “Cherish the Day” and working with Beyoncé on her feature-length visual album “Black Is King,” Bazawule made his major studio debut with 2023’s “The Color Purple.”

 

[Neuromancer]

RIP Chadwick.

 

[Amerikan Melanin]

Gonna be trash. Dude stinks as a director. Color Purple was horrible

 

[CW99]

as soon as I saw the director I groaned smh Yasuke is going to sing about his strength of character and being seen as a person

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

Wonder how this Assassins Creed controversy impacts the movie..

 

[Red Shield]

Wonder how this Assassins Creed controversy impacts the movie..

Nothingburger

 

[Bondye Vodou]

They gonna make him…

 

[Concerned Citizen]

Black samurai about to be HARD on these hoes word to Danny Glover my aunts and mom still hate him

 

[Roid Jones]

The director

 

[Jaguar93]

RIP Chadwick bruh was originally going to play Yasuke.

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

I can guarantee Assassin's Creed: Shadows will have a better Yasuke story than this movie

 

[patscorpio]

RIP Chadwick bruh was originally going to play Yasuke.

He would have killed that role