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* FranchiseKiller: ''Shaft in Africa'' came out amidst a glut of FollowTheLeader {{Blaxploitation}} films, the preceding two films having ironically been the leaders in question, and between that and its mixed reviews, it bombed at the box office. Afterwards, the series was shunted to {{TV movie}}s, and it took until 2000 for a new, theatrically released ''Shaft'' film to be made after that.
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* FranchiseKiller: ''Shaft in Africa'' came out amidst a glut of FollowTheLeader {{Blaxploitation}} films, the preceding two films having ironically been the leaders in question, and between that and its mixed reviews, it bombed at the box office. Afterwards, the series was shunted to {{TV movie}}s, and it took until 2000 for a new, theatrically released ''Shaft'' film to be made after that. Sadly, the scathing reviews of the 2019 film and its resulting underperformance has proven to be the final blow to the series. Not to mention the death of Creator/RichardRoundtree that would occur four years later.
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* CreatorBacklash: According to a modern interview with Ernest Tidyman's son, the author was dismayed with the changes made for the film, which he co-wrote the screenplay, as he felt the studio was trying too hard, in an unauthentic way, to make Shaft more ethnic.
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* DisownedAdaptation: According to a modern interview with Ernest Tidyman's son, the author was dismayed with the changes made for the film, as he felt the studio was trying too hard, in an unauthentic way, to make Shaft more ethnic.
