Rapper Ja Rule Joins 'Assault On Precinct 13'

[Thursday, April 1st, 2004]
Rapper Ja Rule has signed on to join Focus Features' remake of the 1976 John Carpenter film Assault on Precinct 13, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Ethan Hawke and Laurence Fishburne will lead the cast, which will be helmed by Jean-Francois Richet.

The movie is set in the present day. On New Year's Eve, a notorious mobster (Fishburne) is temporarily incarcerated at Precinct 13, a soon-to-close police station. As a rogue gang tries to free him, a cop (Hawke) must command a crew of policemen and prisoners to defend the station.

Ja Rule plays Smiley, a small-time crook whose latest crime lands him in transport with the mobster, and he becomes trapped in the precinct when the assault begins.

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