There’s more casting news for the upcoming Shaft film from director Tim Story. According to a report in Variety, Hall will play a former love interest of John Shaft and the mother of John Shaft Jr, who in the upcoming film is “working for the FBI, estranged from his father and determined not to be anything like him, John Shaft Jr reluctantly enlists his father’s help to find out who killed his best friend Karim and bring down a drug-trafficking/money-laundering operation in NYC.” And while the Shaft movies don’t have roots in comic books, the upcoming film has strong ties to various Marvel superhero movies.
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