Samuel L. Jackson is attached to topline and co-produce a live-action feature to be adapted from the Japanese comic franchise Afrosamurai, created by Takashi Okazaki, reports Variety.
Jackson is already signed to lend his voice to an Afrosamurai TV comicstrip set to bow on Spike TV next year.
Afrosamurai is the story of a warrior in feudal Japan who roams the country trying to avenge the death of his father, whom he saw murdered. His nemesis is a three-armed gunman.
Production of the pic is set to begin in 2006, with a U.S. release targeted for 2007.