Three generations of Shaft converge in this year’s Shaft, the fifth entry and second revival of the classic Blaxploitation series that started in 1973. Starring Richard Roundtree (the original John Shaft), Samuel L. Jackson (the son of Shaft), and Jessie Usher (the youngest Shaft), Shaft (2019) has the three private detectives unearth the mystery behind the suspicious death of an army veteran.