{"id":42077,"date":"2017-11-30T07:12:50","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T12:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=42077"},"modified":"2017-11-30T07:12:50","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T12:12:50","slug":"shaft-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/30\/shaft-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"New Line Sets New SHAFT Film For 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/shaft-samuel-l-jackson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-42080\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/shaft-samuel-l-jackson-678x380.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/shaft-samuel-l-jackson.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/shaft-samuel-l-jackson-339x190.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The black private dick whose a sex machine for all the chicks is returning to the big screen in 2019. New Line Cinema has set a June 19, 2019 release date for a new <strong>Shaft<\/strong> film featuring Samuel L Jackson based on the character created by novelist Ernest Tidyman and originally portrayed by Richard Roundtree.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/shaft-rides-summer-goldfinch-steals-awards-release-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Wrap<\/a>, &#8220;Shaft\u2019s straight-laced FBI agent son reluctantly pull[s] in his renegade dad on a case.&#8221; The studio has described the film as a &#8220;passing of the torch&#8221; with Jessie T. Usher starring as the next generation of the crime fighting family. <strong>Barbershop<\/strong>&#8216;s Tim Story is directing with <em>Black-ish<\/em> creator Kenya Barris providing the screenplay.<\/p>\n<p>People have erroniously called the Jackson-starring <strong>Shaft<\/strong> a remake, when in fact it wasn&#8217;t. The character was actually the nephew of the original John Shaft character played by Richard Roundtree in three movies and a short-lived television series in the 1970s. Roundtree also had a cameo in the 2000 movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Can you dig it?<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/30\/shaft-2019\/\" title=\"New Line Sets New SHAFT Film For 2019\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[2103,249,2102],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-42077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-richard-roundtree","9":"tag-samuel-l-jackson","10":"tag-shaft"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42077"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=42077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}