JohnWick filmmaker Chad Stahelski and co-executive producer for 'Raising Dion,' Leigh Dana Jackson, team up to tackle Netflix’s adaptation of Marc Olden’s 'Black Samurai' novels
Details on Netflix’s take were as thin as the very best katana blades, but Olden’s eight blaxploitation books, published in the 1970s, center on Robert Sand, an American soldier in Japan who learns the ways of the most powerful martial arts and becomes the Black Samurai.
The first novel saw him embarking on a mission of vengeance. The other books were globe-trotting thrillers that featured power-mad millionaires, black-market warheads, pimps, voodoo priests and a solid gold katana, not to mention an always-climbing body count.Jackson has extensive credits in the TV tentpole thriller sphere. He is currently a writer and exec producer on Apple TV+’s with David Goyer for the streamer.
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