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Bill Simmons · Mallory Rubin

Aired May 14, 2020

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American Gangster · The Rewatchables ·September 2, 2025

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Budget penalties, gifts, real-world family connections, locations, and a Godfather Part III idea

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• Brian Grazer and Ridley Scott reportedly returned three million dollars after overrunning the budget
• The BET series American Gangster is noted as predating the movie
• Russell Crowe reportedly gave RZA a mint 1961 Gretsch guitar and they remained friends
• Frank Lucas’s real driver is identified as Sean Combs’s father, who was killed when Combs was two
• The production used parts of upper Manhattan that could still pass for 1970s New York
• Francis Ford Coppola reportedly considered a Frank Lucas-like character for The Godfather Part III

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2014