Director Spike Lee, best known for making movies about the experience of being Black in America, is switching course with a musical on the subject of Viagra.
Lee will direct the as-yet-untitled film from a screenplay he has co-written about the discovery and launch of the erectile dysfunction drug. It is based on a 2018 article in Esquire magazine called All Rise, producers said on Tuesday.
The 63-year-old Brooklyn native said in a statement that he had grown up hating musicals in spite of the efforts of his mother. Finally Going Into My 4th Decade As A Filmmaker I Will Be Directing A DANCIN, ALL SINGIN MUSICAL, he added.
Lee also directed a movie musical in 1988 called School Daze.
Lee won his first Oscar in 2019 for the screenplay of Ku Klux Klan satire BlacKkKlansman.
His more than 50 movies and documentaries include classics such as Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X and this years Vietnam War survivor drama Da 5 Bloods. (Reuters/NAN)
Source: NAN News