Warner Bros. touched off outrage when it announced that it is rebooting its 1991 classic gangster film New Jack City. The studio has tapped “Snowfall” actor and filmmaker Malcolm M. Mays to write the script, according to Shadow and Act.
Another one: #NewJackCity reboot in development at Warner Bros. https://t.co/w9hvmYR9DM pic.twitter.com/c44EXGrxRq
— Shadow and Act (@shadowandact) September 24, 2019
The original New Jack City featured a plethora of rising filmmakers and actors of that generation, including director Mario Van Peebles, who went on to make and star in the films Posse and Panther, and writer Thomas Lee Wright. It starred Wesley Snipes in his most famous role as drug lord Nino Brown and featured the likes of Ice-T, Chris Rock as “Pookie,” Flavor Flav, Allen Payne (of “House of Payne” fame), Judd Nelson (The Breakfast Club) and Peebles.
The original New Jack City was made for a paltry $8 million but hauled in an impressive $50 million at the box office and, more importantly, became an instant classic among urbanites.
This represents the second of Snipes’ film classics to get rebooted. Snipes announced he has no problem with filmmakers rebooting the comic book classic Blade from the late 1990s.
Fans of the classic film are against the excavation of the movie for a variety of reasons, mostly because it is impossible to recreate the crack epidemic of the 1980s.
https://twitter.com/ira/status/1176304318347001856
Do we need this??? https://t.co/4u1bTnjYQV
— Okayplayer (@okayplayer) September 24, 2019
'New Jack City' reboot, sit your five-dollar-ass down before we make change! https://t.co/ndGLTIeEvK pic.twitter.com/wZd3jhKJtl
— The Root (@TheRoot) September 24, 2019
https://twitter.com/Mayla_sarya21/status/1176546654142554112
Just finding someone to play Nino alone will be too much of a job for anyone trying to remake this. Just leave well enough alone damn!!!
— The Eye Of Solaris (@EyeSolaris) September 24, 2019
https://twitter.com/_misskj/status/1176297561256280065
Not to piss off the Wokes but I'd love for the new New Jack City reboot to be about the opiod crisis and only have white people in it until the last scene.
The last scene is the original cast from New Jack City just staring at the audience like "Oh now ya'll care?!"
The End.
— Rod (@rodimusprime) September 24, 2019
