Spike Lee to direct Prince of Cats

[frankgutz]

Spike Lee is set to direct the film adaptation of Ron Wimberly’s graphic novel Prince of Cats, a hip-hop take on Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. Lee is also working on a rewrite of the script with Wimberly and the screenwriter Selwyn Seyfu Hinds (a former editor of seminal hip-hop magazine The Source). Prince of Cats is set in the 1980s in “Da People’s Republic of Brooklyn,” and rooted in the hip-hop culture of DJing, MCing, breakdancing, and graffiti writing. It follows Juliet’s cousin Tybalt and his Capulet brothers as they duel with the rival Montagues.

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**** is gonna be cool af, we getting good news after good news, the amount of talented ppl working for DC/WB, whoa!! we keep winning

 

[TheGuy]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[geosphere]

That is great news! I still think that they should also do a static and vixen movie. I think if both of those films where done right black audiences and everyone else would really enjoy it.

 

[Lencho01]

Sounds cool to me.

 

[Gee]

It seems the OGN is now published by Image Comics.