Shaft 2: "Shaft" (2019)

[ZariusTwo]

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[Andrew NDB]

This would be Shaft 5: Shaft.

Weird. Just call it "Shafts." Or anything. They used to be creative with titles like, "Shaft's Big Score" and such.

It's interesting how Samuel L. Jackson gets top billing in this but appeared to be a supporting character or cameo (along with Roundtree) when the press was making the rounds about this movie earlier. Jesse Usher was supposed to be the star. The movie WAS greenlit right around the time Independence Day 2 came out, when his star was on the rise...

[Sumac]

I wish they would go with this title.

Though some other versions also can be good, like "Shaft: The Shaftening".

[ProactiveMan]

Shaft 2: Hypershaft.

[Andrew NDB]

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Looks OK. Maybe trying too hard to be a little too... funny, though? Shaft isn't supposed to be a comedy.

[AT-Man]

Looks like crap.

[Andrew NDB]

Restricted trailer. It's a good sign that it will be rated-R, at least.

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[Candy Kappa]

That trailer was super endearing. tbh I wasn't too keen on the 2000 film having Jackson as Shaft II instead of just Shaft in contemporary times, but now there's a third Shaft with Jr. it feels a lot more natural, somehow.

[Xav]

Restricted trailer. It's a good sign that it will be rated-R, at least.

G3JFXYZNxD0I thought Richard Roundtree was Sam Jackson's uncle not his dad?

[Andrew NDB]

I thought Richard Roundtree was Sam Jackson's uncle not his dad?

Yeah... I remember him calling him "Uncle John" in the last one.

[Andrew NDB]

Saw it. It was a comedy that shouldn't have been a comedy... and it wasn't very funny. It was very,very un-PC, at least.

They do actually address the "Uncle John" thing at one point. Sam Jackson remarks to Richard Roundtree at one point, "like when you finally stopped pretending to be my uncle," or something like that.