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American gangster: Brian Grazer and Ridley Scott.(THE PRODUCERS: Snapshots of the process)

American Gangster" producer Brian Grazer must have a special sort of sympathy for Richie Roberts, the New Jersey detective portrayed in the film who doggedly trailed Harlem underworld baron Frank Lucas for five fruitless years before finally bringing him in. After all, that's two years fewer than Grazer spent bringing Lucas and Roberts' story to the screen.

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"I bought the rights almost immediately," Grazer says of reading Mark Jacobson's 2000 New York Grazer Magazine profile, "The Return of Superfly," introduced to him by Nicholas Pileggi. "I asked Nick if Lucas and Roberts would be interested in having their stories told, the three of them flew ...

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