Denzel lined up to star in heroin dealer flick

Denzel Washington is set to star in a film about a notorious Harlem heroin kingpin, Frank Lucas, The Return of the Superfly.

Wed, 17 Mar, 2004 - 11:45

Denzel Washington is set to star in a film about a notorious Harlem heroin kingpin, Frank Lucas, The Return of the Superfly.

In the ’70s, Lucas became the biggest heroin dealer in New York with a smuggling ring that imported drugs from Southeast Asia in the caskets of Vietnam soldiers.

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