Following the critically acclaimed and award-winning film Da 5 Bloods, another collaboration between Netflix and Spike Lee seemed like a surefire idea. The streamer is a perfect place for the iconic filmmaker, and it looks like they agree as well since they’ve signed a multi-year deal together.
Lee will direct and produce narrative films via his Forty Acres and a Mule Filmworks banner as part of the deal. The studio and Spike Lee have already worked on a She’s Gotta Have It series, the one-man show Rodney King, and the 2019 film See You Yesterday, which the filmmaker produced.
“There is no better way for me and my company, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, to begin the new year than renew our partnership with Ted, Scott, And Tendo — da fearless leaders of Netflix,” Lee wrote in a statement announcing the deal. “Besides my joints, we together will focus on the new diverse storytellers; youth must be served.”
“Throughout Spike’s incredible career, his writing and directing have remained searing and insightful about our times, while still being incredibly entertaining,” says Netflix’s head of global film Scott Stuber. “We’re privileged to enter this new partnership with Spike and look forward to bringing the next chapter of films from Brooklyn’s very own to the world,” Stuber continued.
Lee is next set to produce Gordon Hemingway & The Realm of Cthulhu for Netflix, directed by See You Yesterday’s Stefon Bristol.
