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Shaft Reboot

Deadline is saying New Line will release it in theaters, and then Netflix will release it streaming two weeks later. So it sounds like it wouldn't be a major theatrical release.
 
It looks like the Netflix stuff is only for outside of the US since I guess Black movies aren't as successful in those markets.
 
This sounds lousy. When I heard that they were doing a new Shaft film, I was hoping we'd get a new actor to play the character and revitalize the franchise. Instead we get Samuel L. Jackson sleepwalking for another paycheck and his computer hacker son who looks like he's 14 years old.
 
Jessie T Usher just doesn't have it.

Ive seen Survivor's Remorse and he's the weakest actor on the show by a pretty wide margin
 
I haven't seen the show, but I wasn't feeling him in Independence Day 2.
 
Yeah I'm not feeling Usher for the role. I like Survivor's Remorse (unfortunately they canceled it so the most recent season was the last), but I agree that he isn't that great of an actor. Combine that with Tim "mediocre" Story directing and it supposedly having a more comedic tone and this is shaping up to be a "watch it at home at some point...maybe" movie.
 
Wow so many wrong steps. This is following eerily close to A Good day to Die Hard. The director, the decision on doing the son angle, the long wait between the first movie and this sequel. They should bring back Bale's villain for kicks.
 
i agree with yall that Usher is a very weak actor. They should have gone with someone else.
 
Samuel L Jackson cover story

One of the biggest markers in the portrayals of black men on screen was that of Richard Roundtree in Shaft (1971). Jackson played the character’s nephew in the 2000 film of the same name – dressed by Giorgio Armani – and has just finished filming Son of Shaft, the sequel. The importance of the character for black actors is undeniable and he was keen to defend how the character was portrayed. “When we started the film, the producers wanted to make an action comedy, and I told them that you can’t make John Shaft a comedic character,” he says. “He can be funny, but he has to be strong, dynamic, and charismatic in all the ways that he was because he is part of our mythology. Shaft is part of our black film anthology. He was a hero and one of the first people we saw to be that kind of a character.”

EDIT: This link may be easier on the eyes.
 
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Samuel L. Jackson suits up again as 'Shaft' in exclusive first look
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Usher is no anybody. He's an extremely mediocre actor. He's fine on TV but not leading a film
 
I have since read the Shaft comic and I liked it a lot. Would’ve been cool if they had done a film more like that.
 
I have since read the Shaft comic and I liked it a lot. Would’ve been cool if they had done a film more like that.
There should be a comics adaptation of the movie. also the novel-based comics should come back.
 
I recently watched the movie that came out back 2000 and honestly outside of Sam Jackson and Christian Bale as the villain it really isn't that great of a film. I see why they never made a sequel and hearing about this doesn't give me much hope either, especially with the casting Jessie T. Usher who was just horrible in Independence Day: Resurgence. I actually didn't mind him on Survivor's Remorse, but some tv actors just don't translate well to the big screen.
 
Kind of funny that three Samuel L. Jackson sequels have/are coming out after 15, 20 years from the previous ones. Incredibles 2, Glass and Shaft.
 
So John Shaft (Roundtree) had a brother that we've never seen? I guess it would have been interesting to show who he was, since he's probably deceased at this point.

"I recently watched the movie that came out back 2000 and honestly outside of Sam Jackson and Christian Bale as the villain it really isn't that great of a film. I see why they never made a sequel and hearing about this doesn't give me much hope either, especially with the casting Jessie T. Usher who was just horrible in Independence Day: Resurgence. I actually didn't mind him on Survivor's Remorse, but some tv actors just don't translate well to the big screen."

For me, Bale's blue-blood bigot was something of a weak link in the film-- one of several, really. I enjoyed Jeffrey Wright's Dominican dope dealer more.
Conceptually, I was thrown off severely by the creative choice to make this Shaft a police detective-- Jackson playing a cop in any other film is fine, but in the original Shaft, the main character doesn't see himself as being part of "the system" [police, courts], nor does he see himself part of "the underworld" [gangsters]. This was a major misstep, and I can recall at the time an interview with the screenwriter who openly said that he couldn't wrap his head around the notion of a black man who was not a police officer in Rudy Giuliani's New York "running around and shooting things up" (paraphrase). [Well, who said that RG had to be the mayor in this movie's version of New York? Oh, well..]

Vanessa Williams was fine (pun intended) as the nominal love interest, but of course, absolutely none of the "smooth player" aspects of the original Shaft gets to be embodied by Jackson (yes, there was that throwaway semi-scene in the opening credits, but come on, really??).
 
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Sam Jackson is no Shaft.
 
Guess that just kicks Usher even further down the ladder then.
 

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