Who's the black private dick with a plastic replacement hip? The man tha's a sex machine with all the Social Security chicks?
Damn right, talking 'bout Shaft -- or at least John Singleton is. The Rosewood director will be filming an MGM update on the '70s movie detective in New York this summer and says he's planning on showing John Shaft at fiftysomething. ''It's not going to be a remake, it's going to be a continuation of the franchise,'' he reports. ''It'll still be a detective movie, with the cool music and the cool attitude and the women.''
No word on casting yet, but Wesley Snipes and Ving Rhames, both 34, are said to be interested -- as is the original Shaft, Richard Roundtree, who's 54. ''We're in preliminary discussions,'' says his manager.
For the director of movies as pointed as Rosewood and Boyz N the Hood, Shaft should be a big change of pace. ''I'm doing Shaft so that no white people ask me, 'What's the message of this movie?'''
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