--- title: Shaft Getting Remake From Black-ish Creator description: New Line wants to give you the shaft. The company, which opens the reboot of Vacation on Wednesday, is in development on a reboot of... canonical: https://time.com/3976381/shaft-getting-remake-from-black-ish-creator/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-29T09:04:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T09:41:13.463Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 'Shaft' Getting Remake From 'Black-ish' Creator og:description: New Line wants to give you the shaft og:url: https://time.com/3976381/shaft-getting-remake-from-black-ish-creator/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt80860399ff9a4785/69885cf5e53aba07bd4ded1e/474923002.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 8th Annual Television Academy Honors og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Shaft' Getting Remake From 'Black-ish' Creator twitter:description: New Line wants to give you the shaft twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt80860399ff9a4785/69885cf5e53aba07bd4ded1e/474923002.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Shaft_ Getting Remake From _Black-ish_ Creator by [Borys Kit / The Hollywood Reporter](https://time.com/author/the-hollywood-reporter/) ## Borys Kit / The Hollywood Reporter Jul 29, 2015 9:04 AM UTC  enya Barris attends the Television Academy Honors at the Montage Beverly Hills on May 27, 2015 enya Barris attends the Television Academy Honors at the Montage Beverly Hills on May 27, 2015Paul Archuleta—FilmMagic by [Borys Kit / The Hollywood Reporter](https://time.com/author/the-hollywood-reporter/) ## Borys Kit / The Hollywood Reporter Jul 29, 2015 9:04 AM UTC New Line wants to give you the shaft. The company, which opens the reboot of _Vacation_ on Wednesday, is in development on a reboot of _Shaft_, the cult Blaxploitation movie from the 1970s. _Black-ish_ creator Kenya Barris and Alex Barnow, an executive producer-writer on ABC’s _The Goldbergs_, have been tapped to write the script. John Davis, who is producing the upcoming _Man from U.N.C.L.E._ reboot and the new take on _Frankenstein_ with _Victor Frankenstein_, is producing with Ira Napoliello. The original movie told of a private detective named John Shaft, played by Richard Roundtree, who is hired to find a missing girl in Harlem. The movie was on the leading edge of Blaxploitation, a new genre that seemed to embrace and empower a rising black culture (although some said it only enforced stereotypes). The soundtrack by Isaac Hayes (the theme is one of filmdom’s classics) also contributed to the film’s cult status. _Shaft_ got a slick and polished 21st century reboot in 2000 when John Singleton directed Samuel L. Jackson, who played the nephew of the character. This new iteration will have a comedic tone but will retain its action roots. Richard Brener and Samuel J. Brown are overseeing for the studio. Barris’ _Black-ish_ mixes race and comedy as it tells of a black family living in a mostly white upper-class neighborhood. The show’s Anthony Anderson is up for an Emmy for outstanding lead actor in a comedy category. Barris, repped by CAA, Principato-Young Entertainment and Morris Yorn, also worked on _Barbershop 3_, currently in production, and has a big-screen version of TV show _Good Times_ in development as well as an untitled girls trip comedy that Will Packer is producing at Universal. In addition to his work on _Goldbergs_, Barnow co-created the Matthew Perry comedy _Mr. Sunshine_ and was a staff writer on _The Family Guy_. He is repped by UTA and Hansen Jacobson. Barris and Barnow previously teamed up for an untitled comedy about a white guy who begins to hear Ice Cube’s voice in his head, which New Line picked up earlier this spring. [_This article originally appeared on Hollywoodreporter.com_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/shaft-getting-remake-black-ish-811631) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3976381/shaft-getting-remake-from-black-ish-creator/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3976381/shaft-getting-remake-from-black-ish-creator/"},"headline":"Shaft Getting Remake From Black-ish Creator","datePublished":"2015-07-29T09:04:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T09:41:13.463Z","description":"New Line wants to give you the shaft. 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