![]() ![]() American Gangster was nominated for twenty-one awards, including two Oscar nominations for Best Art Direction and Best Supporting Actress (Ruby Dee), and won three including a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for Dee. Many of the people portrayed, including Roberts and Lucas, have stated that the film took much creative license with the story, and three former DEA agents sued Universal claiming the agency's portrayal was demoralizing. It is based on the play Gangstress, or Women in Prison by Dorothy Mackaye, who in 1928, as 440960, served less than ten months of a one- to three-year sentence in San Quentin State Prison. The film was well received by most film critics, and grossed over US$266.5 million worldwide, with domestic grosses standing at $130.1 million. B picture crime film directed by Robert Florey, credited as 'Florian Roberts'. Principal photography commenced over a period of five months from July to December 2006 filming took place throughout New York City and concluded in Thailand.Īmerican Gangster premiered in New York on October 20, 2007, and was released in the United States and Canada on November 2. 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 stars Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe with co-stars Ted Levine, John Ortiz, Josh Brolin, Chiwetel Ejiofor, 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 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 Newark 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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