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=== Production === {{expand section|date=November 2014}} [[Melvin Van Peebles]] claimed that the success of his film ''[[Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song]]'' caused ''Shaft'' to be changed from a "white movie" into a "black one".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/jun/05/features.review|title=Baadasssss is back!|date=5 June 2005|newspaper=[[The Observer]]|access-date=2010-10-31|archive-date=2018-04-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180407184132/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/jun/05/features.review|url-status=live}}</ref> In fact, filming of ''Shaft'' began in January 1971, several months before the release of Van Peebles' film, with Roundtree already confirmed in the lead role.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=S2tkAAAAIBAJ&pg=2331,4657347&dq=richard-roundtree+shaft&hl=en|title=Filming of Shaft on in New York|date=Jan 27, 1971|work=[[The Calgary Herald]]|access-date=May 29, 2020|archive-date=June 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210620230429/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=S2tkAAAAIBAJ&pg=2331%2C4657347&dq=richard-roundtree+shaft&hl=en|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HclOAAAAIBAJ&pg=2467,4235894&dq=richard-roundtree+shaft&hl=en|title=Roundtree plays detective|date=March 28, 1971|work=Toledo Blade|access-date=May 29, 2020|archive-date=June 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210620230421/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HclOAAAAIBAJ&pg=2467%2C4235894&dq=richard-roundtree+shaft&hl=en|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=First 1971 Movie Is Ready to Shoot: Times Square Scenes for 'Shaft' Set for Monday|date=January 5, 1971|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> The story is set in the same month, as shown by a calendar on Shaft's office wall. Tidyman, who is white, was an editor at ''The New York Times'' prior to becoming a novelist. He sold the movie rights to ''Shaft'' by showing the galley proofs to the studio (the novel had not yet been published). Tidyman was honored by the [[NAACP]] for his work on the ''Shaft'' movies and books.
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