Reboots of cult classic and iconic movies have been among the biggest trends in the film industry over the past decade.
The Warner Bros. studio announced on Tuesday (September 23) that another updated version of 1991 gangster and Hip Hop-centric film New Jack City is in the works, which reportedly has Snowfall actor and director Malcolm M. Mays signed on as its head writer, according to Deadline.
Mario Van Peebles and Thomas Lee Wright respectively directed and wrote the original film, which starred Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Vanessa A. Williams, Chris Rock, Allen Payne, Judd Nelson, Peebles and the late Bill Nunn.
Public Enemy’s Flavor Flav and reggae legend Eek-A-Mouse also had cameos in the flick.
No director has been named for the remake at press time, but A Star Is Born producer Bill Gerber is onboard with the film’s original producer Doug McHenry.
The plot revolved around Snipes who played the ruthless New York City drug kingpin Nino Brown who capitalized off the 1980s crack epidemic with his gang, the Cash Money Brothers.
The characters played by Peebles, Nelson and Ice-T organized an undercover police unit to infiltrate the Cash Money Brothers’ Harlem-based apartment complex-turned-crack house called “The Carter” to bring down Brown and his crew.
Ice-T played Scotty Appleton, a detective whose personal motivation is bringing Brown to justice after he shot Appleton’s mother to death for a gang initiation several years prior.
Rock was the compulsive “Pookie” Benny Robinson, a one-time stick-up kid who becomes homeless and poor after Appleton shoots him in the ankle, then became a crack addict and an eventual police informant used to help the undercover unit build a case against the Cash Money Brothers.
The movie has been highly influential in Hip Hop, namely the Cash Money Records Cash Money Billionaires crew logo that was similar to the Cash Money Brothers’ one in the film. Also, Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter album series has a direct connection to Brown’s fictitious real estate operation.
The movie is a classic so why would someone do a reboot ? Honestly classic movies dont need reboots maybe 2nd movie that connects to the 1st yes but reboot come on ! Just opinion
Please don’t.
No thanks. How about something original. This isn’t 90’s NYC. The dope game has changed dramatically since. Stop being lazy trying to remake classics because the viewership has ADHD.
Cause I’m sure they’d make the film with the exact same plot and not adapt it for today… And what’s remaking got to do with ADHD? You sound like the one with the problem.
The movie Colors could use a reboot. And a new “tales from the hood” would be dope.
U never seen part 2 of tales from the hood??? It’s trash compared to the first one
If they would have bothered reading the rest of the article it’s not a reboot or a remake it’s fucking part two of the thing as a sequel..
This whole movie was stolen from True Events in my city Detroit , Michigan , It was good but , but far from being the truth
Yep the Chambers bros from Arkansas came to Detroit and set up shop
The movie and sound track was dope! sequel might be ok but no reboot what is a reboot anyway?? Something that needs a boot up the azz!!
It’s gonna be trash. Don’t even try to act like it won’t. It will be trash.