Shaft (2019) Official Thread

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You're assuming when I mention Bond that I'm talking about jet setting around the world and corny puns. I'm not. I'm talking about Bond as a semi cohesive series of films.

If they're going to reboot it for the second time - why not at the very least not try to make it a trilogy? It's not like Black actors in Hollywood couldn't use consistent roles.
what kind of English is this? I am guessing your general point is that you want execs to make shaft a franchise? Then why not say? To just throw the name bond in your statement it easy to take it literal
 

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James Brown
Jackie Robinson
Black Panther
Horus

Shaft:mjpls:

That monopoly :wow:
:patrice: you call it monopoly I call it a slippery slope, he needs to put panther on the map before he is remembered as the nobody that only plays somebodys


Ps he ain't playing horus, he's playing thoth
 

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Singleton had the right direction but he said during filming he caught all kinda well from the other producers about the script..Notice they had all kinda corny shyt in there like "it's my duty to please that booty" c'mon lol Shot sounded like the white guys read a lost 70's comic book on that one...the best way to.go.would be not to cast anybody well known just to have somewhere fresh to start from like Gordon Parks did in the og...the most important will be to run thru thru the script to weed out any cornball shyt 'cause a lot of movies made these days tend to forget that insultin peoples game lol
 
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Thats the only way I will rock with this..

But then again the original 1971 joint cannot be touched though..

It will pale in comparison..

The scene when Shaft rolls up in the No Name bar in the village with Issac Hayes "Do your Thing" playin cannot be replicated :ohlawd:

That point and time in NY in that early 1970s era is hard to reproduce.

They tried to in American Gangster but that shyt put me to sleep till the shotgun raid in the projects lol
 

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I hope it's set in the 70s. I don't think Shaft in 2015 NYC works. Who still hires private eyes like that? I know they exist but are they still solving crimes or just catching cheating spouses expecially with this social media climate. No Idris because "Luther" is pretty much Shaft in London...
 
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I hope it's set in the 70s. I don't think Shaft in 2015 NYC works. Who still hires private eyes like that? I know they exist but are they still solving crimes or just catching cheating spouses expecially with this social media climate. No Irish because "Luther" is pretty much Shaft in London...

Because black people refuse to put their trust in the cops, so when they need some investigating done, they call up Shaft.
 
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