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Three more join "American Gangster"
POSTED ON 08/22/06 AT 2:00 P.M.
BY ETHAN AAMES

The Hollywood Reporter reports that Chiwetel Ejiofor, RZA and John Ortiz will join "American Gangster" for director Ridley Scott and Universal Pictures.

The film stars Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington in this true life tale of Frank Lucas (Washington), a drug kingpin who shipped heroin to the US using the coffins of dead soldiers in Vietnam. Richie Roberts (Crowe) eventually captured Lucas but the two began to work together to expose crooked cops and foreign nationals.