Spike Lee takes on another WWII Project

Director Spike Lee is sticking with WWII for now, acquiring the rights to Brendan Koerner’s novel “Now the Hell Will Start.” Lee plans to produce the film under his 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks shingle. Lee appears to be working in a sort of theme mode right now, with his last movie ‘Miracle at St. Anna’ also dealing with the African-American experience in World War II. My hope is that he finds a talented director that can do this film more justice than Lee did with ‘Miracle.’

Nonfiction thriller, subtitled “One Soldier’s Flight From the Greatest Manhunt of World War II,” recounts the story of an African-American soldier who murdered his lieutenant and then fled into the Burmese jungle.

Book uses the soldier’s story to explore how the U.S. military considered African- Americans unfit for combat and shipped thousands to India in 1944 to build the Ledo Road, a 500-mile project that extended through mountains into China. — Variety

[source: Variety]