Samuel L. Jackson will reprise his role of John Shaft (nephew of the original John Shaft) from the 2000 reboot by John Singleton.
Variety is reporting that Regina Hall (Girls Trip, Best Man Holiday) will join Samuel L. Jackson, Richard Roundtree, Jesse T. Usher and Alexandra Shipp in Netflix and New Line Cinema’s upcoming Shaft sequel.
She will play a former love interest of Jackson’s John Shaft and Usher/the younger Shaft’s mother.
Hall will next be seen in The Hate U Give opposite Anthony Mackie, and in Romany Malco’s directorial debut Prison Logic.