J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot are co-producing the feature film version of Genndy Tartakovsky’s Samurai Jack. Abrams is reportedly developing Samurai Jack into a feature animated movie that will combine traditional 2-D animation with stereoscopic 3-D, and has the project lined up at Paramount Pictures.

Samurai Jack is a 4-time Emmy award-winning American animated television series created by animator Genndy Tartakovsky that aired on Cartoon Network from 2001 until 2004. It is noted for its highly detailed, outline-free, masking-based animation, as well as its cinematic style and pacing.

The plots of individual episodes ranged from dark and epic to light-hearted and comic, but typically follow Jack in his singular quest to find a method of traveling back in time. Many of the battle scenes in the series are reminiscent of samurai films, and since Jack’s robotic enemies “bleed” oil or electricity and monsters/aliens bleed slime or goo, the series was able to exhibit the action of these films while avoiding censorship for violence.

[Source] Federator Films