Tony Sokol Nov 8, 2018
Spike Lee will direct his third Roger Guenveur Smith play adaptation with Frederick Douglass Now.
The first act of rebellion Roger Guenveur Smith committed for Spike Lee's camera lens was to put a photograph of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Junior on the Italian Wall of Fame in a pizza parlor in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn, in Do The Right Thing. Lee went on, not only to cast Smith in another 10 roles, but to adapt two of his plays to film. Lee's next joint will be lit by Smith's one-man play Frederick Douglass Now, which the director will turn into a biopic about the 19th century abolitionist, author and self-emancipated slave, according to Variety.
Frederick Douglass Now will be produced by Buffalo 8, which produced Rodney King, another Lee movie adapted from a play by Smith, along with Luna Ray Media. Spike who is hot off this year's subversive comedy,...
Spike Lee will direct his third Roger Guenveur Smith play adaptation with Frederick Douglass Now.
The first act of rebellion Roger Guenveur Smith committed for Spike Lee's camera lens was to put a photograph of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Junior on the Italian Wall of Fame in a pizza parlor in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn, in Do The Right Thing. Lee went on, not only to cast Smith in another 10 roles, but to adapt two of his plays to film. Lee's next joint will be lit by Smith's one-man play Frederick Douglass Now, which the director will turn into a biopic about the 19th century abolitionist, author and self-emancipated slave, according to Variety.
Frederick Douglass Now will be produced by Buffalo 8, which produced Rodney King, another Lee movie adapted from a play by Smith, along with Luna Ray Media. Spike who is hot off this year's subversive comedy,...
- 11/8/2018
- Den of Geek
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