The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is reporting that a movie titled Afrosamurai is currently in production, with a scheduled release for 2007.

The movie will star and be co-produced by Samuel L. Jackson as a character named No. 2, a black samurai in a futuristic, yet feudal Japan. No. 2 is on a mission to avenge the wrongful death of his father who was mudered in front of him when he was a boy.

The Afrosamurai website describes the basic story as follows.

The tale of Afro Samurai is one of bloody hardship and pain. Along his solitary path of revenge for his murdered father, he sheds no tears and knows no love. Forever chased by powerful enemies in a lawless technology-speckled dystopia, he evades bullets and blade to reach his final prey: a man who will not die. But Afro will reach his quarry – even if it means painting a road of blood and brains from here to the bitter inevitable end.