Highlander creator Gregory Widen to pen script on first real-life black Samurai – Yasuke

Deadline reports that Lionsgate has contracted Highlander creator Gregory Widen to write Black Samurai, an action drama grounded in the historical tale of Yasuke, who’s said to be the first black samurai to serve a warlord in Japan. Mike De Luca and Stephen L’Heureux are producing the film as a co-production between Solipsist Films and ….