Netflix will light the next Spike Lee' joint.
Please baby, please baby, please baby, baby baby please! Spike Lee is coming to TV. Netflix ordered 10-episode series based on Lee’s debut feature movie She's Gotta Have It. Prior to that he’d just cut heads in Bed-Stuy.
Netflix says the She’s Gotta Have It series will be a contemporary remake of the film and Lee will direct all 10 half-hour episodes. He will also executive produce with wife Tonya Lewis Lee. The project was originally set up at Showtime two years ago.
Lee put out the following statement:
"She’s Gotta Have It Has A Very Special Place In My Heart. We Shot This Film In 12 Days (2 Six Day Weeks) Way Back In The Back Back Of The Hot Summer Of 1985 For A Mere Total of $175,000. Funds That We Begged, Borrowed and Whatnot To Get That Money. This Is The 1st Official Spike Lee Feature Film Joint And Everything That We Have Been Blessed With In This Tough Business Of Film All Have Been Due To SGHI. Now With The Passing (August 8th) Of The 30th Anniversary, It’s A Gift That Keeps On Giving. We Are Getting An Opportunity To Revisit These Memorable Characters Who Will Still Be Relevant And Avant Garde 3 Decades Later. With All That Said It Was My Wife, Tonya Lewis Lee, Producer In Her Own Right,Who Had The Vision To Take My Film From The Big Screen And Turn It Into An Episodic Series. It Had Not Occurred To Me At All. Tonya Saw It Plain As Day. I Didn’t. We Are Hyped That NETFLIX Is Onboard With This Vision As Nola Darling, Mars Blackmon, Jamie Overstreet And Greer Childs DO DA DAMN THANG Now, Today In Da Republic Of Brooklyn, New York."
The series will centers on Nola Darling, an artist in her late twenties living in Brooklyn who is juggling her friends, job and three lovers.
Lee has been nominated twice for Oscars, for the Do the Right Thing screenplay and for the documentary 4 Little Girls. Lee won two Emmys for When the Levees Broke, his documentary on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
Lee shot She’s Gotta Have It in 12 days during the summer of 19’85. The film starred Tracy Camilla Johns as Nola Darling, It also starred Tommy Redmond Hicks, John Canada Terrell and Lee as her suitors. The film came out in 1986 and helped invigorate the independent film movement of the 1980s.
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