Having voiced the character for both its anime mini-series and TV movie, Afro Samurai: Resurrection, Samuel L. Jackson is now moving to the producer’s chair (they get chairs, right?) for the property’s live action feature film debut. Per the press release we received, Jackson has teamed up with The Indomina Group to bring the character to the silver screen. The plan is to have a writer and director attached to the pic this summer with casting to be shored up by the end of the year. The pic will shoot in the Dominican Republic in 2012.

For those unfamiliar, Afro Samurai was originally a manga series written/illustrated by Takashi Okazaki. The series centers on Afro Samurai, a hero with a familiar origin: after witnessing his father killed by a gunslinger named Justice as a youngster, adult Afro dedicates himself to avenging his father’s untimely death. In 2009, Afro Samurai: Resurrection won an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation. If you’d like a little more on the project, hit the jump to check out the official press release.

Here’s the press release: