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 SHAFT

2000 | Directed by John Singleton

Cool and deadly NYPD detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade, Jr. in a racially-motivated slaying. The eye witness disappears, Wade jumps bail for Switzerland, and Shaft is livid. Two years later, Wade returns to face trial, confident his father's money and influence (and racial politics) guarantee an innocent verdict. Shaft looks hard for the witness, so Wade wants someone to kill her. He turns to a ghetto drug king, Peoples Hernandez, who's willing to kill for money , uses Wade as a route to rich

drug customers, and shaft Shaft. Can Shaft find the witness, convince her to testify, and shepherd her through the hail of bullets that Peoples is sure to let fly?

CAST & CHARACTERS

Samuel L. Jackson

Christian Bale

Jeffrey Whright

Toni Collette

Vanessa Williams

... John Shaft

... Walter Wade

... Peoples Hernandez

... Diane Palmieri

... Carmen Vasquez


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TRIVIA FACTS

Richard Roundtree, who plays Uncle John Shaft, played Shaft in the original films.

Don Cheadle was originally cast as Shaft.

Christian Bale didn't have any interest in playing the part of the villain as he had just finished making American Psycho (2000). But he was reading through lines with Toni Collette who has the part of the witness in the film one day, and decided to give it a go as another villain after all.

Isaac Hayes, the composer of the Shaft theme song, Gordon Parks, the director of the original Shaft (1971), and John Singleton, director of this version, all have cameos.

The word 'fuck' is used 165 times.

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  • INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE
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  • OFFICIAL SPAIN WEBSITE
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