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Watch the trail­er for Spike Lee’s Net­flix Orig­i­nal, She’s Got­ta Have It

27 Jun 2017

Words by Grace Wang

Take a peek at the direc­tor’s first for­ay into TV and meet the new Nola Darling.

Spike Lee has cho­sen to wave a brief good­bye to his old friend cin­e­ma to part­ner with Net­flix for his first ever TV ser­i­al – an adap­ta­tion and 30th anniver­sary cel­e­bra­tion of his first fea­ture-length effort, She’s Got­ta Have It.

The orig­i­nal, writ­ten and direct­ed by Lee when he was 29, was released in 1986 and announced the emer­gence of a bold new film­mak­ing tal­ent. It’s an urgent com­e­dy-dra­ma which broke new ground in its depic­tion of both urban African-Amer­i­can life in the US and female sex­u­al­i­ty. Shot over the course of just 12 days dur­ing the sum­mer of 86, the film was a huge suc­cess, tak­ing in over $7m from its ini­tial the­atri­cal run.

The forth­com­ing Net­flix Orig­i­nal is a 10-episode series which will remain loy­al to the film’s plot and themes: Nola Dar­ling, now played by DeWan­da Wise, is still on a quest to bal­ance her work as a Brook­lyn-based artist, her friends, and her three lovers.

Speak­ing of the idea behind this new project, Lee has said: It was my wife, Tonya Lewis Lee, pro­duc­er in her own right, who had the vision to take my film from the big screen and turn it into an episod­ic series. It had not occurred to me at all. Tonya saw it plain as day. I didn’t.”

She’s Got­ta Have It is released on Net­flix on 23 Novem­ber, 2017

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