Shaft poster
Director Tim Story
Writer Kenya Barris, Alex Barnow

Shaft

Tagline: More Shaft than you can handle.

Release Date: 2019-06-14

Duration: 111 minutes

Synopsis

JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend’s untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide. Absent throughout JJ’s youth, the legendary locked-and-loaded John Shaft agrees to help his progeny navigate Harlem’s heroin-infested underbelly.

Casting

  • Samuel L. Jackson
    John Shaft
  • Titus Welliver
    Special Agent Vietti
  • Regina Hall
    Maya Babanikos
  • Alexandra Shipp
    Sasha Arias
  • Jessie T. Usher
    JJ Shaft
  • Luna Lauren Velez
    Bennie Rodriguez
  • Richard Roundtree
    John Shaft, Sr.
  • Avan Jogia
    Karim Hassan
  • Matt Lauria
    Major Gary Cutworth
  • Jordan Preston Carter
    Young JJ