The inspiration for the Selina character was Cathy Volson-Curry, a sometime-girlfriend of B.J.’s and the former wife of fellow Detroit drug kingpin Johnny Curry. Selina was Nino Brown’s high-class girlfriend, coming from an upwardly-mobile African-American family where her dad was a doctor. trusted and relied on very few, if any, more than he did Fats, who started working for him when he was still in junior high school. Chambers’ bodyguard and primary liaison to all the gang’s top lieutenants. “Fats” Wilkins has no stutter, but he was B.J. In the opening scene of the movie, we see him toss an indebted rival of Nino’s off the Brooklyn Bridge at Nino’s behest. The Duh Duh Man, nicknamed for his stutter, watched Nino Brown’s back at all times as his bodyguard and personal enforcer. 2 in charge and day-to-day overseer of his operations. Also known on the street as, “J-Man” or “G-Man,” Gant was B.J. G-Money was Nino’s childhood best friend and right-hand man until they fell out over the usual….money, power, respect, women, etc… “Fly Guy” Gant was the real-life G-Money, minus the drug habit and any beef with his boss. and Marlow’s personality, B.J.’s leadership and natural likeability mixed with Marlow’s ambition and lethality.Ĭharacter: Gerald (G-Money) Wells – Allen Payne His older brother Marlow came on board in 1985 upon his release from prison and added some ingenuity to the family business – taking over an entire apartment complex, the Broadmoor, and turning it into a 24-hour-a-day,7-days-a-week narcotics and vice emporium (known as “The Boulevard,” which became “The Carter” in the film). Chambers started the family’s drug empire and built it to epic heights.
NINO BROWN NEW JACK CITY TABLE SCENE MOVIE
Playing the ruthless, brilliant and charismatic crime lord Nino Brown made Snipes a movie star. Here is a list of New Jack City characters and their real-life inspirations from the actual Chambers Brothers Gang:Ĭharacter: Nicholas (Nino) Brown – Wesley Snipesīased on: B.J.
NINO BROWN NEW JACK CITY TABLE SCENE CRACK
The Chambers brothers and most of their main lieutenants were indicted and jailed in March 1988 after revolutionizing the Motor City narcotics trade by introducing crack cocaine at the street level in the mid-1980s, just years removed from most of them moving up to Michigan from Arkansas. New Jack City, a movie that has been called the “Black Scarface,” and started a trend in Hollywood, tipping off a wide slate of urban underworld dramas produced throughout the rest of the decade, was penned by Barry Michael Cooper, who wrote the heavily-praised magazine feature entitled New Jack City Eats It’s Young, published by the Village Voice in 1987.ĭirected by Mario Van Peebles, the film celebrated its 25 th anniversary this past spring.
Based on a Village Voice article on Detroit’s notorious Chambers Brothers Gang, the 1991 gangster-film classic New Jack City moved the action on the screen to the Big Apple.
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