{"id":13145,"date":"2008-07-25T10:58:08","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T14:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=13145"},"modified":"2008-07-25T10:58:08","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T14:58:08","slug":"new-details-on-afro-samurai-sequel-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/new-details-on-afro-samurai-sequel-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"New Details on Afro Samurai Sequel Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Spike television network has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spike.com\/blog\/afro-samurai\/66874\" target=\"_blank\">officially announced<\/a> that Afro Samurai: Resurrection will premier on the network in January 2009. Samuel L. Jackson reprises his starring role as &#8220;Afro&#8221; while Yuri Lowenthal will again play Afro&#8217;s nemesis &#8220;Kuma.&#8221; Emmy Award-nominated actress Lucy Liu joins the cast as new antagonist &#8220;Sio&#8221; while Mark Hamill will play &#8220;Bin,&#8221; Sio&#8217;s manservant and protector. Renowned rap artist RZA again provides the musical score.<\/p>\n<p>The Afro Samurai: Resurrection trailer (viewer discretion advised) is now online on the official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afrosamurai.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Afro Samurai homepage<\/a> and in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spike.com\/video\/3008862\" target=\"_blank\">larger version<\/a> on the Spike homepage.<\/p>\n<p>FUNimation has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funimation.com\/f_index.cfm?page=news&amp;id=463\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> plans to release the movie on DVD in February 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spike television network has officially announced that Afro Samurai: Resurrection will premier on the network in January 2009. Samuel L. Jackson reprises his starring role as &#8220;Afro&#8221; while Yuri Lowenthal will again play Afro&#8217;s nemesis &#8220;Kuma.&#8221; Emmy Award-nominated actress Lucy Liu joins the cast as new antagonist &#8220;Sio&#8221; while Mark Hamill will play &#8220;Bin,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}