After negotiations with Terry George, it was later revived with Scott at the helm in March 2005. Because of the film's rising budget Universal canceled production in 2004. Original production plans were to commence in Toronto for budget purposes however, production eventually relocated permanently to New York City. Two years later, screenwriter Steven Zaillian introduced a 170-page scriptment to Scott. The film also co-stars Ted Levine, John Ortiz, Josh Brolin, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Norman Reedus, Ruby Dee, Lymari Nadal and Cuba Gooding Jr.ĭevelopment for the film initially began in 2000, when Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment purchased the rights to a New York magazine story about the rise and fall of Lucas. The film stars Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe in their first lead acting roles together since 1995's Virtuosity. The film is fictionally based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by detective Richie Roberts. American Gangster is a 2007 American biographical crime film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by Steven Zaillian.
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