Who played John Shaft in the 2000 film version of 'Shaft'?
"John Shaft John Shaft I is a fictional character created by screenwriter Ernest Tidyman. He was portrayed by Richard Roundtree in the original 1971 film and in its four sequels, ""Shaft's Big Score!"" (1972) ""Shaft in Africa"" (1973), ""Shaft"" (2000) and ""Shaft"" (2019), with Samuel L. Jackson portraying his nephew (named John Shaft II) in ""Shaft"" (2000) and ""Shaft"" (2019), and Jessie T. Usher portraying the character's son (named John Shaft III) in ""Shaft"" (2019). The blurb on the paperback on which the original film is based states Shaft is ""Hotter than Bond, cooler than Bullitt."" The television show ran"
"of their Movie Maniacs series three toy line. Accessories included are a handgun, sunglasses and a replica of the film's poster with a skulls and bones base. A soundtrack containing hip hop and R&B music was released on June 6, 2000 by LaFace Records. It peaked at #22 on the ""Billboard"" 200 and #3 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. In the DVD commentary for Poetic Justice, John Singleton states that he originally wanted Tupac Shakur to play the lead role in Shaft. Shaft (2019 film) Shaft (2000 film) Shaft is a 2000 American action thriller film directed by John Singleton"
"Richard Roundtree Richard Roundtree (born July 9, 1942) is an American actor. He has been called ""the first black action hero"" for his portrayal of private detective John Shaft in the 1971 film ""Shaft"", and its sequels, ""Shaft's Big Score"" (1972) and ""Shaft in Africa"" (1973), along with a cameo appearance as the character in the 2000 film ""Shaft"", which starred Samuel L. Jackson as the nephew of the original John Shaft. For his performance in ""Shaft"", Roundtree was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor. Born in New Rochelle, New York, Roundtree"
"Shaft (1971 film) Shaft is a 1971 American blaxploitation action-crime film directed by Gordon Parks and written by Ernest Tidyman and John D. F. Black. The film revolves around a private detective named John Shaft who is hired by a Harlem mobster to rescue his daughter from the Italian mobsters who kidnapped her. The film stars Richard Roundtree as John Shaft, Moses Gunn as Bumpy Jonas, Charles Cioffi as Vic Androzzi, and Christopher St. John as Ben Buford. The major themes present in ""Shaft"" are the Black Power movement, race, masculinity, and sexuality. It was filmed within the New York"
"his agency, seen on a newspaper ad, is ""Hafts"", an anagram for Shaft. Shaft (1971 film) Shaft is a 1971 American blaxploitation action-crime film directed by Gordon Parks and written by Ernest Tidyman and John D. F. Black. The film revolves around a private detective named John Shaft who is hired by a Harlem mobster to rescue his daughter from the Italian mobsters who kidnapped her. The film stars Richard Roundtree as John Shaft, Moses Gunn as Bumpy Jonas, Charles Cioffi as Vic Androzzi, and Christopher St. John as Ben Buford. The major themes present in ""Shaft"" are the Black"
"the original finished at #38 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top songs in American cinema. In 2000, Hayes told National Public Radio that he had only agreed to write and record the ""Shaft"" score after ""Shaft"" producer, Joel Freeman, promised him an audition for the lead role (which was taken by a then-unknown Richard Roundtree). He never got the chance to audition, but kept his end of the deal anyway. Director Gordon Parks also had a hand in composing the theme, describing the character of John Shaft (the ""black private dick/who's a sex machine/to all the chicks"") to"
"from 1973 to 1974, with Richard Roundtree reprising the role of John Shaft. There were seven 90-minute movies, part of the ""New CBS Tuesday Night Movies"", rotating with ""Hawkins"", which starred James Stewart. List indicator(s) John Shaft's weapon of choice is a Smith & Wesson Model 36, or either a Beretta 92FS or an M1911 pistol. Shaft is also a practitioner of several styles of martial arts that includes Shaolin Kung Fu, Wing Chun, judo, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and Shotokan and Kyokushin karate. In February 2015, it was reported that a reboot of the film franchise is in the works, later"
"to Speed. He also appeared in the two-parter in ""Knight Rider"" (2008) as the father of FBI Agent Carrie Ravai, and currently co-stars as the father of the lead character on ""Being Mary Jane"", which has aired on BET since 2013. Richard Roundtree Richard Roundtree (born July 9, 1942) is an American actor. He has been called ""the first black action hero"" for his portrayal of private detective John Shaft in the 1971 film ""Shaft"", and its sequels, ""Shaft's Big Score"" (1972) and ""Shaft in Africa"" (1973), along with a cameo appearance as the character in the 2000 film ""Shaft"","
"John Shaft as, 'A lone, black Superspade—a man of flair and flamboyance who has fun at the expense of the (white) establishment.'"" They also promoted ""'the behind-the-camera participation of blacks,' thereby appealing to blacks who would appreciate the film as a black production or could fantasize that blacks had somehow beat the Hollywood system and taken over Metro-Goldwyn Mayer studios."" When asked at the 2014 Virginia Film Festival how it felt to be cast as Shaft, Richard Roundtree responded that he had been extremely excited about the part at the time. He had previously been cast mostly in commercials and"
"Award for Best Original Song and has appeared on multiple Top 100 lists, including AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs. Widely considered a prime example of the blaxploitation genre, ""Shaft"" was selected in 2000 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."" John Shaft, a private detective, is informed that some gangsters are looking for him. Police Lt. Vic Androzzi meets Shaft and unsuccessfully tries to get information from him on the two gangsters. After Androzzi leaves, Shaft spots one of the men waiting for him in his office"
"8 critics, with an average rating of 5/10. Shaft in Africa Shaft in Africa is a 1973 film directed by John Guillermin and is the third film in the blaxploitation trilogy of films starring Richard Roundtree as John Shaft. Stirling Silliphant wrote the screenplay. The cost went up to $2,142,000, but the gross fell to $1,458,000. MGM quickly sold the property to television, but the television series was cancelled after just seven episodes. At home in his New York City apartment, John Shaft is drugged with a tranquilizer dart, then kidnapped and persuaded by threats of physical force, the promise"
"Shaft was considered a possible candidate for AFI's ""100 Years…100 Heroes and Villains"". The film itself was also a candidate for AFI's ""100 Years…100 Thrills"". In 2000, ""Shaft"" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"". In 2003, ""Shaft"" was chosen as one of ""The 1000 Best Movies Ever Made"" by ""The New York Times"". One of the greatest factors contributing to ""Shaft""'s wild success and lasting appeal is its memorable musical score, ""a revolutionary funk/soul masterpiece,"" composed by Isaac Hayes. Hayes auditioned for the"
"film. It was entered into the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival and was nominated for the Golden Bear, the festival's biggest prize. St. John is the father of actor Kristoff St. John. Christopher St. John Christopher St. John, sometimes credited as Chris St. John, is an African-American film and television actor. He is also a film producer, film director and screenwriter and played a minor role in the television series ""Remington Steele"". A member of the Actors Studio starting in the mid-1960s, St. John is best known for playing the role of Ben Buford in the 1971 blaxploitation film ""Shaft""."
"Shaft in Africa Shaft in Africa is a 1973 film directed by John Guillermin and is the third film in the blaxploitation trilogy of films starring Richard Roundtree as John Shaft. Stirling Silliphant wrote the screenplay. The cost went up to $2,142,000, but the gross fell to $1,458,000. MGM quickly sold the property to television, but the television series was cancelled after just seven episodes. At home in his New York City apartment, John Shaft is drugged with a tranquilizer dart, then kidnapped and persuaded by threats of physical force, the promise of money, and the lure of a pretty"
"film ""Shaft"", portrayed the character of Staff Sgt. Henderson in the film. David Janssen, known for his role in the TV series ""The Fugitive"", accepted a part as a journalist to work with Laurence Olivier. Actress Karen Kahn portrayed the young Korean lover of Major Frank Hallsworth in the film. In a subsequent interview with ""The Press Democrat"", Kahn said of the film: ""It was supposed to be this ""Gone with the Wind"". And it was the worst movie. It's in some of those worst-films-of-all-time books. After that movie I quit. I just couldn't take L.A. I was really thin-skinned."
"graduated from New Rochelle High School in 1961, and played for the school's undefeated and nationally ranked football team. He attended Southern Illinois. Roundtree was diagnosed with the rare disease male breast cancer in 1993 and underwent a double mastectomy and chemotherapy. Roundtree was a leading man in early 1970s blaxploitation films, his best-known role being detective John Shaft in the action movie, ""Shaft"" (1971) and its sequels, ""Shaft's Big Score"" (1972) and ""Shaft in Africa"" (1973). Roundtree also appeared opposite Laurence Olivier and Ben Gazzara in ""Inchon"" (1981). On television, he played the slave Sam Bennett in the 1977"
"novel sequels, including ""Goodbye, Mr Shaft"" and ""Shaft's Carnival of Killers"". In February 2015, TheWrap reported that ""Shaft"" would be rebooted by New Line Cinema with John Davis producing the new film. In July 2015, ""The Hollywood Reporter"" reported that Kenya Barris and Alex Barnow would be writing the script, Davis and Ira Napoliello would be producing, and Richard Brener and Samuel J. Brown would direct. ""The Hollywood Reporter"" wrote that the film ""will have a comedic tone but will retain its action roots"". When he was asked about that characterization of the film, Davis said ""It's drama, but it's"
"Shaft (film series) The Shaft film series, is composed of Neo-noir action-crime movies centered around three African-American police detectives John Shaft, his nephew John Shaft II, and the former's son John Shaft III; who over the course of the films have altercations with a variety of crime. The first three films were characterized by their blaxploitation characteristics, while the fourth installment was a thriller film. Reportedly the fifth entry will have more humor, and will be categorically an action-comedy movie. John Shaft is a classy and suave African-American detective. Successfully, he fights local crime, in the leader of the black"
"Christopher St. John Christopher St. John, sometimes credited as Chris St. John, is an African-American film and television actor. He is also a film producer, film director and screenwriter and played a minor role in the television series ""Remington Steele"". A member of the Actors Studio starting in the mid-1960s, St. John is best known for playing the role of Ben Buford in the 1971 blaxploitation film ""Shaft"". Between 1968 and 1988, he appeared in eight film and television productions. In addition to appearing as George Lattimer in ""Top of the Heap"" (1972), St. John wrote, directed, and produced the"
"released in theatres on June 8, 1972. The film was released on DVD initially on June 6, 2000, then August 30, 2005, and finally January 31, 2006 by Warner Home Video. Shaft's Big Score! Shaft's Big Score! is a 1972 American neo-noir action crime–drama film starring Richard Roundtree as the private detective John Shaft. Directed by Gordon Parks, this is the second film in the trilogy. Ernest Tidyman once more supplied the screenplay. The first film's composer Isaac Hayes was unavailable, so Parks, the returning director, did the score himself. The film was produced on a budget of $1,978,000. ""Shaft's"
"cancer in Memphis, Tennessee, on May 1, 2012. He was 65 years old. Charles Pitts Charles ""Skip"" Pitts (April 7, 1947 – May 1, 2012) was an American soul and blues guitarist. He is best known for his distinctive ""wah-wah"" style, prominently featured on Isaac Hayes' title track from the 1971 movie ""Shaft"". He is widely considered to have been one of the architects of soul, R&B and funk guitar. Pitts learned to play guitar at age 11 on the street corners of his childhood hometown, Washington D.C., often receiving tips from his neighbor, Bo Diddley. Pitts' uncle owned a"
"""Shaft""-themed wedding for Will and his fiancée, Lisa. In ""ER"", in the fifth season Halloween episode 5, surgical resident Dr. Peter Benton dresses up as John Shaft and reveals to British surgical intern and previous trauma fellow Dr. Elizabeth Corday that when he was a kid he wanted to be Shaft. In the ""Simpsons"" episode ""One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish"", Bart and Lisa sing Isaac Hayes' theme song to the film at a karaoke bar. In ""Glee"", episode ""Throwdown"", Sue Sylvester refers to student Matt Rutherford as ""Shaft"" when she is listing off the minorities in the glee"
"for its portrayal of Shaft as a strong black hero ... I share Riley's desire to see black actors playing roles now assumed by actors such as Jack Nicholson or Dustin Hoffman, but I don't think the choice for black people is limited to either 'Five Easy Pieces' or Stepin Fetchit."" Later reviews were far more positive. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 89% rating. Isaac Hayes won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for ""Theme from ""Shaft"""". In 2004, the song was named the 38th greatest"
"be produced by Ira Napoliello. On January 20, 2017, the studio hired Tim Story to direct the reboot film. On August 18, 2017, Jessie Usher was cast to play the lead role as a son of a detective in the film, titled ""Son of Shaft"", while Richard Roundtree and Samuel L. Jackson would reprise the roles of the original character and his nephew, respectively. In October 2017, Netflix made a pact with New Line Cinema to cover more than half of the film's $30 million budget in exchange for the rights which allowed Netflix to release the film on its"
"Blind Shaft Blind Shaft () is a 2003 film about a pair of brutal con artists operating in the illegal coal mines of present-day northern China. The film was written and directed by Li Yang (李杨), and is based on Chinese writer Liu Qingbang's short novel ""Shen Mu"" (""Sacred Wood""). Most coal mines in China are worked by migrant workers who are forced to endure back-breaking, dangerous work in order to send money home. Some of them have additional schemes of their own. Song Jinming (played by Li Yixiang) and Tang Zhaoyang (Wang Shuangbao) are professional con artists, running an"
"became involved with ""Shaft"" in hopes of having director Gordon Parks cast him in the title role, but was not aware that Richard Roundtree had already been cast as John Shaft. Hayes did appear in the film in a cameo role, but, more significantly, composed the film's score. While the film was still in production, Parks sent Hayes raw footage of some of the film's scenes, and Hayes wrote three pieces for the scenes: ""Theme from ""Shaft"""" for the opening title sequence, ""Soulsville"" for a scene in which Shaft walks through Harlem, and ""Ellie's Love Theme"" for a love scene."
"John Shaft, became a major hit that spawned a series of films that would be labeled as, ""blaxploitation"". The blaxploitation genre was one in which negative stereotypes of black males being involved with drugs, violence and women, were exploited for commercially successful films featuring black actors. Parks' feel for settings was confirmed by ""Shaft"", with its portrayal of the super-cool leather-clad, black private detective hired to find the kidnapped daughter of a Harlem racketeer. Parks also directed the 1972 sequel, ""Shaft's Big Score"", in which the protagonist finds himself caught in the middle of rival gangs of racketeers. Parks's other"
"Arnold Johnson (actor) Arnold Herbert Johnson (November 15, 1921 – April 10, 2000) was an American actor who played the lead role in the film ""Putney Swope"" (1969); in the film, his voice was dubbed by Robert Downey, Sr. because Johnson could never remember his lines. Johnson appeared in ""Shaft (1971 film)"" as Cul, a friend of John Shaft and the owner of a shoeshine parlor. He also played a role in the film ""My Demon Lover"" (1987) and had roles in ""Rocky"" (1976) and ""Menace II Society"" (1993), as Thomas, the religious Christian grandfather of the lead character Caine"
"movie song of all time by the American Film Institute. Hayes also won a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, the Grammy for Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture and was nominated for the Original Dramatic Score Oscar, as well as the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music. The film's score was also selected as a possible candidate for AFI's ""100 Years of Film Scores"". Richard Roundtree was nominated for the Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer (Male), and he also received an MTV Lifetime Achievement Award for his portrayal in the ""Shaft Trilogy"". The character John"
"directorial credits include ""The Super Cops"" (1974) and ""Leadbelly"" (1976), a biopic of the blues musician Huddie Ledbetter. In the 1980s, he made several films for television and composed the music and a libretto for ""Martin"", a ballet tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr., which premiered in Washington, D.C. during 1989. It was screened on national television on King's birthday in 1990. In 2000, as an homage, he had a cameo appearance in the ""Shaft"" sequel that starred Samuel L. Jackson in the title role as the namesake and nephew of the original John Shaft. In the cameo scene, Parks"
"as shown by a calendar on Shaft's office wall. Tidyman, who is white, was an editor at ""The New York Times"" prior to becoming a novelist. He sold the movie rights to ""Shaft"" by showing the galley proofs to the studio (the novel had not yet been published). Tidyman was honored by the NAACP for his work on the ""Shaft"" movies and books. ""Shaft"" played a crucial part in the development of African-American advancement in Hollywood. In the creation of ""Shaft"", there was a significant African-American presence, with director Parks, editor Hugh A. Robertson, and musical composer Isaac Hayes playing"
"Shaft (TV series) Shaft is a series of TV movies that aired along with ""Hawkins"" and other TV movies during 1973-74 television season on ""The New CBS Tuesday Night Movies"". Broadcast every third week, the series is a continuation of the three films beginning with ""Shaft"" (1971), and starring Richard Roundtree as private detective John Shaft. Because it was aired on over-the-air television, CBS felt that the narrative needed to be toned down. Now instead of working alongside the police, Shaft worked with them, creating cross-overs with ""Hawkins"", another police series with a starkly conflicting demographic. The show was cancelled"
"are negative. Common criticisms include that the film was not gripping enough, had a weak storyline, generally unrealistic deaths, weak dialogue and unconvincing special effects. The film was not well received in the Netherlands and was seen as comparing poorly to ""De Lift"", considered to be one of the strongest Dutch horror films of all time, whilst ""Down"" was regarded as a typical American B-film. Down (film) Down (re-titled The Shaft on DVD) is a 2001 Dutch-American science fiction horror film written and directed by Dick Maas and starring James Marshall, Naomi Watts, and Eric Thal. The film is a"