According to Hollywood Reporter, Spike Lee will direct the film Prince of Cats. This very film is basically the graphic novel written and illustrated by Ron Wimberly.
Prince of Cats is described as a hip-hop version of William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet in 1980’s Brooklyn. The story will be told through the perspective of Juliet’s cousin Tybalt, who navigates Da People’s Republic of Brooklyn with his Capulet brothers. To further put it, the crew will fight for whats rightfully theirs with the Montagues in underground sword battles.
Lee will work with Wimberly on revising the script, which was originally written by Selwyn Seyfu Hinds, a forner editor-in-chief of The Source magazine.
Currently, Lee will be finishing Da 5 Bloods, a film about four African-American Vietnam vets who return to Vietnam.
Da 5 Bloods is being distributed by Netflix.
