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Warner Bros. Is Giving Us A 'New Jack City' Reboot

'Snowfall's' Malcolm M. Mays will pen the script for the project, no word on whether or not the original cast will return.
Warner Bros. Is Giving Us A 'New Jack City' Reboot
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By Sydney Scott · Updated December 6, 2020

Is 2019 the year of reboots?

Deadline reports that Warner Bros. is set to reboot 1991 gangster fave New Jack City. Snowfall actor and filmmaker Malcolm M. Mays is attached to pen the script. No word yet on whether or not the original cast will be returning.

New Jack City follows the rise of Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes), a drug lord in New York City during the crack epidemic, as he becomes the city’s most fearsome gangster. However, his empire is threatened by detective Scotty Appleton (Ice-T), who goes undercover to work for Nino.

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The film also starred Chris Rock, Allen Payne, late actor Bill Nunn and Mario Van Peebles, who directed the project.

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