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Black Dyna­mite is back, baby!

24 Jan 2018

Words by Adam Woodward

Man in blue suit holding gun; two women in colourful dresses sitting on floor in posh room with painting and chandelier.
Man in blue suit holding gun; two women in colourful dresses sitting on floor in posh room with painting and chandelier.
Michael Jai White has teased a sequel to Scott Sanders’ blax­ploita­tion-spoof­ing action com­e­dy from 2009.

Lis­ten up, you jive turkeys! There’s a smooth-talkin’, ass-kickin’ cat back in town and his name is Black Dyna­mite. On Tues­day 23 Jan­u­ary, actor and renowned mar­tial artist Michael Jai White dropped a 30-sec­ond teas­er for what appears to be a fol­low-up to Scott Sanders’ blax­ploita­tion par­o­dy from 2009 – and we couldn’t be more excited.

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The orig­i­nal Black Dyna­mite saw White excel as the epony­mous ex-CIA agent, who makes it his mis­sion to clean up the streets and exact vengeance on The Man for the death of his brother.

We said: ​“From the pro­duc­tion design and sound­track to the mud­dy, messed-up grad­ing, Black Dyna­mite feels as though it’s been recov­ered from a time-cap­sule and sim­ply set free.” But despite the pos­i­tive reviews and a pop­u­lar Adult Swim spin-off car­toon, the film remains some­thing of a cult gem.

We don’t yet know quite what this sequel will entail – this announce­ment came com­plete­ly out of the blue – but in a year in which Marvel’s Black Pan­ther is mak­ing his long-over­due big screen bow, it seems entire­ly fit­ting that the OG black super­hero should return. Out­ta sight.

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