Shaft
Still the man, any questions?
Shaft (2000)
Timing:
1:39 (99 min)
6.008/10
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6.431/10
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14639
6/10
85000
85000
Country
Production
Genre
Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Budget
$46 000 000
Revenue
$107 626 125
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Scott Rudin, John Singleton, Mark Roybal, Steve Nicolaides, Adam Schroeder, Paul Hall
Operator
Donald E. Thorin
Composer
Artist
Audition
Ilene Starger
Editing
John Bloom, Antonia Van Drimmelen, Al Rodgers
All team (48)
All team (48)
Short description
New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade returns to face trial, confident his money and influence will get him acquitted -- especially since he's paid a drug kingpin to kill the witness.
What's left behind the scenes
- According to Christian Bale, he agreed to star in this film mainly because of the fight scene between his character and Samuel L. Jackson's character on the runway. The scene was filmed, but cut during editing.
- Samuel L. Jackson and director John Singleton (1968-2019) constantly argued with one of the screenwriters, Richard Price, and producer Scott Rudin over lines in the script that they considered racially or sexually offensive. In one scene that Jackson objected to, his character throws a chocolate bar at his sexual partner after she asks him to take her out to dinner. The offensive lines were cut from the film.
- Christian Bale had just finished filming Mary Harron's thriller "American Psycho" (2000) and was very reluctant to play another villain so soon. He changed his mind only after helping Toni Collette refine her lines.
- According to Samuel L. Jackson, he and the director repeatedly argued about the film. After one such argument, which escalated into a quarrel, Singleton even refused to leave his trailer.
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