Netflix has picked up the rights to Marc Olden’s eight “Black Samurai” novels with plans of adapting the material into a film that could launch an action franchise.
The books 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 various stories were globe-trotting thrillers that featured everything from black-market warheads to voodoo priests and even a solid gold katana. Jim Kelly played the character in a 1977 film adaptation.
No writer is attached at present but John Schoenfelder and Russell Ackerman (“Hold the Dark”) will produce.
Source: THR
