Shaft (franchise)

*Shaft*
Shaft
Created by	Ernest Tidyman
Original work	Shaft (1970)
Owners	Warner Bros. Entertainment; (via New Line Cinema and Turner Entertainment Co.); (except for the 2000 film owned by Paramount Pictures)
Years	1970–present
Print publications
Novel(s)	Shaft (1970); Shaft Among the Jews (1972); Shaft's Big Score (1972); Shaft Has a Ball (1973); Goodbye, Mr. Shaft (1973); Shaft's Carnival of Killers (1974); The Last Shaft (1975) - published only in England; Shaft's Revenge (2016) (written by David F. Walker);
Films and television
Film(s)	Shaft (1971); Shaft's Big Score! (1972); Shaft in Africa (1973); Shaft (2000); Shaft (2019);
Television series	Shaft (1973–74)

The Shaft franchise consists of five action-crime feature films and seven television films, centered on a family of African-American police detectives who all share the name John Shaft. The first three features may be described as blaxploitation films, the television film series is a mystery, and the fourth feature installment is a crime thriller. By contrast the fifth film installment, released to Netflix, is a satirical buddy-cop comedy.