Spike Lee

The original structure of Spike Lee’s 1986 She’s Gotta Have It was well-suited to a TV adaptation, but where might Netflix take it in Season 2? We’ll find out, as both Lee and star DeWanda Wise confirm Nola Darling will keep living that Brooklyn life another season.

Spike Lee really wasn’t kidding when he said he’d revisit his first official feature for a new Netflix series. Meet the new Nola Darling, as Netflix goes polyamorous for the first full She’s Gotta Have It trailer, featuring none other than a time-traveling Spike Lee.

Of all the news stories you expect to be fake, “Black Sergeant Infiltrates the Klu Klux Klan” would have to be pretty far up there. Only it really happened. For years during the ’70s and ’80s, Officer Ron Stallworth dedicated his life to infiltrating gang cultures, in particular that of the KKK. This is what led Stallworth to become (against all odds) a black card-carrying member of the Klu Klux Klan in the 1970s; unsurprisingly, this is also what makes Stallworth’s story ripe for cinematic adaptation in the year 2017.

If you, like me, find yourself down the rabbit hole of comic book conspiracy theories, you might eventually come across the case of Nightwatch, the Manhattan time-traveling superhero whose costumes and powers bears a striking resemblance to Todd McFarlane’s Spawn. Adding to this speculation is the fact that Marvel introduced Nightwatch less than a year after McFarlane left to start his own comic book company. Did Marvel basically steal Spawn from an ex-employee? Were there ongoing legal battles we should’ve been reading about this whole time? Are we missing out on superhero drama?!

We’ll still have to wait until Thanksgiving to see Spike Lee’s Netflix take on She’s Gotta Have It, but there’s no better time than now to meet the cast. Say hello to Nola Darling, Greer Childs, Jamie Overstreet and Mars Blackmon in new clips introducing the cast.

Netflix may be pretty quick with cancellations these days, but surely Spike Lee remaking his feature film debut She’s Gotta Have It has a fighting chance, right? The new series not only has its first official teaser, but a late November premiere date as well.

The musical never completely died as a movie genre, but it did lay dormant for a good long while throughout the 1980s and ’90s, with only the occasional throwback like Pennies From Heaven, Newsies, or Everyone Says I Love You popping up, like an old memory. Back then, the movie business largely conceded its tradition of song-and-dance to Disney cartoons and MTV, assuming — wrongly — that the idea of flesh-and-blood actors breaking into big numbers in the middle of narrative feature films had become too cornball for the modern mass audience.

Spike Lee remaking his feature film debut She’s Gotta Have It as a Netflix series can go either way, but at least its cast is shaping up well. Not only has Lee tapped a Hamilton star to play his own central role, but so too has DeWanda Wise scored the title role of Netflix’s She’s Gotta Have It.

Oh, Spike Lee, you must have known Netflix would come for you eventually. So it is, that the iconic filmmaker will move into the TV realm, directing a new adaptation of his own feature film debut, She’s Gotta Have It.

The greatest outrage stirred by last week’s announcement of the Oscar nominees was not the Best Picture snub for Carol or the absurd exclusion of Todd Haynes from the Best Director category, but rather the troubling homogeneity of the twenty men and women nominated in the acting categories. Specifically, many have taken issue with the fact that this year’s Oscar slate looks about as white as a Whole Foods before noon on a Sunday. The social media hashtag OscarsSoWhite resurfaced within minutes after the nomination announcement had finished, and Spike Lee has even called for a boycott of the ceremony as a response to the blatant lack of diversity in this year’s picks.