EXCLUSIVE: Jane Wu, the Supervising Director and Producer behind Annie Award-winning Netflix collection, Blue Eye Samurai, has signed with Verve for illustration following the announcement that the present can be returning for a second season on Netflix. We additionally hear that Wu has been upped to EP.
In addition Wu will proceed to direct a number of episodes of season 2 working alongside creators Michael Green and Amber Noizumi. The collection follows a younger feminine warrior, who has been made an outcast in Edo-period Japan. She cuts a bloody path towards her future.
The collection options the voice abilities of Maya Erskine, Kenneth Branagh, Randall Park and George Takei, and has been sitting at 100% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes since its debut in November final yr.
In addition to Blue Eye Samurai, Wu has channeled her martial arts background and live-action sensibility into such options as a storyboard artist for Mulan, Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse, The Avengers and Shang-Chi in addition to TV collection Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon and Interview With the Vampire.
Wu started her artistic trajectory at Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design and has continued to have an energetic position in artistic training, mentoring college students at UCLA and the ArtHeart College of Design in Pasadena.
She continues to be managed by Tarik Heitmann at Kinetic Media and represented by legal professional Rob Szymanski at Eclipse Law.