Lionsgate Is Developing an Action-Drama Film on Yasuke - The First Black Samurai: Chad Boseman As Ya

[Primetime]

shyt sounds ill.

How they gonna c00n it up?

That Italian missionary.....I can already see how they about to "Django" this.

It did sound ill...

up until this part at the end

“[Black Samurai] is based on the true story of an African whose journey to Japan comes with conflicting background stories,” Gregory Widen tells Deadline, who first reported the news today. “The one I’ve chosen is that he was a slave soldier after the fall of Abysinnian Bengal, a black kingdom run by Ethiopians. He was sold into slavery and found himself in the care of Alessandro Valignano, an Italian missionary. They formed a bond, and when there were complications in Rome, he was sent to Japan and took Yasuke with him. There he met Oda Nobunaga, who was interested in all Western things, and through a series of bizarre events, the Jesuit left Yasukie with the warlord.”

Sold into slavery after black kingdom falls
in the care of an italian missionary
"They formed a bond"

Hopefully the movie starts off with the brotha already in japan and we can skip most of that... background story

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

Yasuke, the first black samurai

Starring Matt Damon

I could definitely see Hollywood execs pitching some shyt like "Tropic Thunder" type bullshyt

 

[Princ3]

interesting not getting hopes up tho.

if he has conflicted backstory then theres no certainity he was a slave. Or am i getting that wrong?.

Blacks outside of Africa are always written as slaves in cac history. It's just low key sneak disses.

 

[newworldafro]

Holy shiit....this is the type of obscure Afri an American/Black Diaspora stories we've been talking about that need to be made for years up here...

 

[010101]

bussing down paags on the big screen*

 

[Red Shield]

Those "catholic missionaries" would soon be murdered and expelled from the country due to the Shogun suspecting subversive intent. It was the catalyst to Japan implementing a isolation policy for several centuries

Shogun was right tho

 

[big bun]

Starring Bradley Cooper...

 

[Concerning VIolence]

Eh, don't care about black people's tokenism in other people's ethnic histories.

How about a movie on Sundiata or Yennenga?

 

[Reign_Of_The_Most_High]

I like Asian movies, but I don't wanna see no nikka pulling this Dances With Wolves/Last Samurai crap.

I agree with you on that, but at least there is precedent with African samurai considering there is information, japanese artwork depicting early African warriors, samurai and emperors in very early dynasties. There is even a old saying that states "That a real samurai has a bit of black blood".

 

[Luxury Tax]

It did sound ill...

up until this part at the end




Sold into slavery after black kingdom falls
in the care of an italian missionary
"They formed a bond"

Hopefully the movie starts off with the brotha already in japan and we can skip most of that... background story

Be prepared for 12 years a samurai

 

[Another Man]

Of course the crackers can never pass on shytting on nikkas

 

[8WON6]

Yasuke, the first black samurai

Starring Matt Damon

i gotta give this clown some credit...The Great Wall was a damn good action movie.

 

[Da Jungles]

 

[Claudex]

Now watch'em make said African a light skinned breh.

 

[Thegospel]

I think I read he was a former slave so yeah. Movie would've been better as an independent film though. Hollyweird gon do what they do