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Apparently, Samuel L. Jackson’s experimental pet project, a Japanese manga 5-episode miniseries called “Afro Samurai” that premiered in the U.S. on Spike in 2007, might be coming to the big screen as a live action flick sometime in the semi-near future. While we all knew (okay, while some of us knew) that the miniseries was scheduled for a second “season” and a corresponding video game, the reality of a movie following the character’s adventures seems to be taking shape rather quickly. “We have a live-action plan,” Jackson recently revealed to MTV, and he was definite about wanting to see Afro’s battle with Number One up on the big screen with flesh-and-blood actors rather than CGI. “Hopefully, that script will come together and we’ll be able to do that in the next two years or so.”

When the 59-year-old actor was asked if he wanted to play the part of the high-kicking Samurai warrior that he voices in the series himself, he responded, “No, I’m not; I won’t be doing that. I’ll be the dead father. I’ll show up in some spiritual scenes, and give him some guidance. We’ll find some young guy that is capable of doing all those things and make it really cool.” And SLJ has an idea of who that young guy should be. “You know, when I look at [the character], I see Andre 3000,” Jackson said. “So, maybe so.”

“’Afro Samurai’ is an interesting hybrid we did, hoping that people would like it, and people embraced it,” Jackson marveled. “It just kinda happened. And now I’m walking down the street and people are asking me about ‘Afro Samurai.’ When’s it coming back? When’s the game coming out? Apparently, it has resonated with a lot of people as well as it did with me when I first saw it.”

What would you think of Andre 3000 as Afro Samurai?