Editing Shaft's Big Score! (section)

==Production==
Production studio [[MGM]], confident that the ''Shaft'' series would be a success, started development of ''Shaft's Big Score'' before the original ''[[Shaft (1971 film)|Shaft]]'' film was even completed.<ref name=RetFan10>{{cite journal|last=Walker|first=David F.|date=August 2020|title=Fifty Years of Shaft|journal=RetroFan|publisher=[[TwoMorrows Publishing]] |location=United States|issue=10|pages=6–7}}</ref> MGM rejected [[Ernest Tidyman]]'s first submitted outline for the film, which he turned into the novel ''Shaft Among the Jews''.<ref name=RetFan10/>

In contrast to the original ''Shaft'', which was produced on a $500,000 budget, ''Shaft's Big Score'' cost nearly $2,000,000.<ref name=RetFan10/> Like ''Shaft'', however, it was filmed entirely [[Location filming|on location]] in [[New York City]], with specific shooting locations including the [[Brooklyn Navy Yard]] and [[Cypress Hills Cemetery]].<ref name=APIcat>{{Cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/54646-SHAFT%27S-BIG-SCORE!?cxt=filmography |title=AFI{{!}}Catalog |website=catalog.afi.com|access-date=2019-06-11}}</ref>

MGM attempted to get [[Isaac Hayes]], composer of the soundtrack for ''Shaft'', to score ''Shaft's Big Score'', but negotiations broke down when MGM refused to pay Hayes the amount he demanded.<ref name=APIcat/>