Shaft (2000 film)
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| Directed by | John Singleton |
| Produced by | Mark Roybal Scott Rudin Eric Steel Adam Schroeder |
| Screenplay by | John Singleton Shane Salerno Richard Price |
| Story by | John Singleton Shane Salerno |
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Shaft by Ernest Tidyman |
| Starring |
Samuel L. Jackson Vanessa L. Williams Jeffrey Wright Christian Bale Richard Roundtree |
| Music by | David Arnold |
| Cinematography | Donald E. Thorin |
| Edited by |
John Bloom Antonia von Drimmelen Al Rodgers |
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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99 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English Spanish |
| Budget | $46 million |
| Box office | $107.2 million |
Shaft is a 2000 American action-thriller film written and directed by John Singleton, and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Jeffrey Wright, Christian Bale, Pat Hingle, Toni Collette, Busta Rhymes, Vanessa L. Williams, and Mekhi Phifer. This film is not a remake of the 1971 film of the same name, but rather a sequel, therefore making it the fourth and final installment of the original series, with a reboot announced in February 2015. Jackson's John Shaft character is the nephew of the original John Shaft. The film received mainly positive reviews and opened at the number one position at the box office when it debuted June 16, 2000.
NYPD Detective John Shaft II (Samuel L. Jackson) is called in to investigate the racially motivated murder of Trey Howard (Mekhi Phifer), committed by Walter Wade, Jr. (Christian Bale), the son of a wealthy real estate tycoon. Shaft briefly meets a potential eyewitness to the murder, Diane Palmieri (Toni Collette), but she disappears soon after and cannot be found for the trial. Wade is released on bail and flees to Switzerland.
Two years later, Wade returns and Shaft rearrests him for leaving the country. During his temporary incarceration at police headquarters, Wade meets Peoples Hernandez (Jeffrey Wright), a Dominican drug lord. Wade relinquishes his passport and is released on bail again; in frustration Shaft resigns from the police force, promising to bring Wade to justice on his own terms. Worried that Shaft might find the missing eyewitness, Wade hires Peoples to find and kill her first.
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