“Snowfall” actor and filmmaker Malcolm M. Mays is reportedly penning a remake of the 1991 neo-noir gangster feature “New Jack City” for Warner Bros. Pictures.
Mario Van Peebles helmed and Thomas Lee Wright penned the original film in which Wesley Snipes played Nino Brown, an arrogant New York City drug lord during the height of the 1980s crack epidemic.
Ice-T portrayed Scotty Appleton, a detective who goes undercover in Nino’s gang to bring down the man for killing his mother. Chris Rock co-starred as a homeless addict turned informant. Flavor Flav, Allen Payne, Judd Nelson and Peebles himself also starred.
Costing a tight $8 million, the film ended up grossing just under $50 million at the box-office. No director is attached to the remake but Bill Gerber and Doug McHenry are producing.
Mays is also set to direct and produce the feature “Flint” for Overbrook Entertainment which is dubbed a “modern-day Chinatown set against the Flint, MI water crisis” and stars John Ortiz and T.I. Harris.
Source: Vulture
