New Jack City is a 1991 crime-thriller/Neo-noir film starring Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Mario Van Peebles, Judd Nelson and Chris Rock. Snipes stars as Nino Brown, a rising drug dealer and crime lord in New York City during the crack epidemic. Ice-T plays a detective who vows to stop Nino's criminal activity by going undercover to work for Nino's gang.
New Jack City was the first theatrically released film for director and co-star Mario Van Peebles. I...
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New Jack City is a 1991 crime-thriller/Neo-noir film starring Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Mario Van Peebles, Judd Nelson and Chris Rock. Snipes stars as Nino Brown, a rising drug dealer and crime lord in New York City during the crack epidemic. Ice-T plays a detective who vows to stop Nino's criminal activity by going undercover to work for Nino's gang.
New Jack City was the first theatrically released film for director and co-star Mario Van Peebles. It was filmed from April 16 to June 6, 1990. The film was based largely on the notorious Chambers Brothers gang of Detroit, who revolutionized the use of an apartment tower to be used for all phases of drug dealing, including packaging, storage, and the drug deals.
The screenplay was written by journalist-turned-screenwriter Barry Michael Cooper, who also scripted 1994's Above The Rim, and Sugar Hill, which also starred Snipes. Cooper rewrote an original script titled "Nicky", which was based on Leroy "Nicky" Barnes and penned by Thomas Lee...
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