New Line has Hollywood talking about Shaft.
NewsWho's the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks? Shaft! Damn right and New Line is bringing the man that would risk his neck for his brother man back to the big screen. Shaftis gonna be made again. Can ya dig it?
The Shaftremake will be produced with producer John Davis of Davis Entertainment. Davis produced the original Predatorand the 2010 sequel Predators. He also put together the upcoming The Man From U.N.C.L.E., which is directed by Guy Ritchie and stars Henry Cavill.
Shaft started out as a novel by Ernest Tidyman that was published in 1970. New York City private detective John Shaft is a complicated man who takes the job of finding a mobster’s missing daughter. Gordon Parks directed the film adaptation in 1971. The movie made Richard Roundtree, currently doing an extended stint on Chicago Fire, an icon. Shaft took Hollywood behind the middle school and produced two sequels, Shaft’s Big Score in 1972 and Shaft in Africa in 1973.
In 2000, John Singleton directed a loose sequel featuring Samuel L. Jackson as the nephew of the original badass, Christian Bale, Jeffrey Wright, Vanessa Williams, Elizabeth Banks and Toni Collette for Paramount. It sold $70 million worth of popcorn.
Source: The Wrap
