Spike Lee is set to direct Frederick Douglass Now, his third movie adaptation of a one-man stage show by Roger Guenveur Smith, after A Huey P.
Newton Story and Rodney King.The new film is set up at Buffalo 8, which produced “Rodney King” with Luna Ray Media.
Netflix acquired “Rodney King” last year.
“Frederick Douglass Now” will mark the latest collaboration between Lee and Smith, who has played distinctive roles in 10 of Lee’s movies, stretching back to his second feature, “School Daze” (1988).Douglass was one of the most extraordinary figures in U.S.
history: a self-liberated slave, orator, publisher, and pioneering feminist who pleaded the case for abolition before Abraham Lincoln and made plans with the President for moving freed slaves to the North during the Civil War.
Douglass lived from 1818 to 1895.Smith’s one-man show begins with the actor rapping from his own text, mashing up references
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