Shaft
Shaft(2019 ) brings together three different contemporaries of John Shafts , but does it have an after - credits aspect ? Released in 1971 , the originalShaftintroduced Richard Roundtree as John Shaft , a tricksy secret investigator who ’s hire to deliver a Harlem mobster ’s girl from the Italian Cosa Nostra . In the tenner since it release , the film has amount to be regarded as a classic of the Blaxploitation genre and engender a brace of ( mostly bury ) followups in the ' 70s , followed by a bequest sequel titledShaftin 2000 . That movie starred Samuel L. Jackson as John Shaft II , a before long - to - be former NYPD detective and the original Shaft ’s nephew .
Directed by Tim Story ( Ride Along 1 & 2 ) and written by Alex Barnow ( The Goldbergs ) and Kenya Barris ( Black - ish ) , the newShaftstars Jessie Usher as John " JJ " Shaft Jr. , an FBI cybersecurity expert and Logos of Shaft II . Jackson and Roundtree also recapitulate their roles as the other John Shafts in the film , which follows the trio as they team up to solve a mystery involving the end of JJ ’s close friend . And while it does n’t straight - out reboot theShaftfranchise , the movie ’s clearly meant to go as a revival meeting that lead the door open for a refreshed Seth of sequels .
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For those who are curious , Shaft(2019 ) does NOT let in an after - reference scene . As always , it ’s upright to watch the credits as a show of regard to the film ’s many crew extremity , and those whodowait through the credits will get some foetid medicine to appreciate along the way . What they wo n’t get , however , is an supererogatory vista and/or a cut that coiffure up a futureShaftmovie .
In the absence seizure of an after - credits scene , it ’s difficult to say what Warner Bros. is plan for the future tense of theShaftfranchise ( if anything ) . The film only cost $ 30 million to make and is projected to gross some $ 20 million in its domestic scuttle weekend alone , so it has a decent shot at turning a profit over its box seat office run . Nevertheless , its commercial potential will be limited by the fact thatNetflixplans to start out pelt it outside the U.S. two weeks after its premiere - something that will considerably affect the moving picture ’s international box office run . Furthermore , this evoke that WB is n’t is n’t precisely focussed on trying to launch a whole Modern set ofShaftmovies with this one .
To be fairish , theShaftfranchise had a spotty track disc long before the 2019 subsequence came along . As mentioned , the follow-up to the 1971 motion-picture show ( Shaft ’s Big Score!andShaft in Africa ) were not exactly smash - hits , and most people have in all likelihood never even heard of the ' 70sShaftTV movie serial . likewise , it took nineteen years forShaft(2000 ) to get a sequel , and even then it was a piece surprising it happen at all . For the same reasons , it was a smart call to hold - off on including an after - credit entry tease with the latestShaftinstallment , and simply waitress to see how it croak over with general consultation and the corner spot first .
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