Washington & Fuqua Team In 'Return Of Superfly'

[Tuesday, March 16th, 2004]
Denzel Washington and helmer Antoine Fuqua are in negotiations to reunite on a biopic of Harlem heroin kingpin Frank Lucas, under the working title The Return of Superfly, according to Variety.

Washington and Fuqua last collaborated on 2001's Training Day, which garnered Washington an Oscar.

Lucas grew up in rural, segregated North Carolina. In the early 1970s, he became the biggest heroin dealer in Harlem with a smuggling scheme that imported the stuff out of Southeast Asia in the caskets of Vietnam soldiers.

Script centers on narcotics lawman Richie Roberts' struggle to bring down Lucas, whose flamboyant style earned him the street name Superfly. Lucas goes on to help Roberts hunt down dirty cops and overseas connections.

Project is based on a New York magazine story by Mark Jacobson and life rights deals for Lucas and Roberts.

Universal hope to go into production on Superfly late this summer.

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