Things We Saw Today: Samuel L. Jackson Is Returning to the Role of Shaft

.@SamuelLJackson suits up again as ‘Shaft’ in exclusive first look https://t.co/MPRtLERejs @wbpictures

— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) December 20, 2018

OMG Shaft is back! We can so dig it.

Shaft is probably one of the most important pieces of black movie history. I have seen the original several times and I even remember my mom taking me to see the 2000 movie (even though I was wayyyy to young for it). And now, Shaft is back bringing back the original Richard Roundtree as Shaft I, Samuel L. Jackson as his nephew John Shaft II, and Jessie T. Usher playing John II’s estranged son, a cybersecurity expert who has to join up with the elder members of the Shaft family.

“He joins the FBI, which is sort of anti-Shaft family values,” Jackson tells EW. “So when he comes to me for help, it’s a matter of reshaping him.”

EW has an exclusive first look at the new Shaft (out June 14, 2019), uniting Roundtree, Jackson, Usher, and Alexandra Shipp. Ride Along’s Tim Story directs, and the new film picks up almost two decades after Jackson joined the franchise in 2000. “He’s mellowed a bit,” Jackson says of his aging detective. “He’s not quite as crazy and cynical. Maybe a bit more devil-may-care the last time we saw him. But still an extremely dangerous and funny character.”

I am so excited to take my mom to see this!

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Do you ever watch your friends do things around you and shift in horror as it unfolds?

(Credit: Fox)

(via EW, image: New Line Cinema)

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