Spike Lee To Direct 10-Episode SHE’S GOTTA HAVE IT Remake Series For Netflix

This is crazy. According to Variety, Spike Lee will direct a season long remake of the film that started his career, She’s Gotta Have It, the story of a girl who has to get it and tries to do so from three different dudes. We recently had a great writeup of the film that you can read here.

Lee will also executive produce along with Tonya Lewis Lee, his wife and producing partner to whom he credits the idea of doing this as a television season. It’s kind of hard to say what approach Lee plans to take while adapting his own material, but he did put out a very capitalized statement:

SHE’S GOTTA HAVE IT Has A Very Special Place In My Heart. We Shot This Film In 12 Days (2 Six Day Weeks) Way Back In The Back Back Of The Hot Summer Of 1985 For A Mere Total of $175,000. Funds That We Begged, Borrowed and Whatnot To Get That Money. This Is The 1st Official Spike Lee Feature Film Joint And Everything That We Have Been Blessed With In This Tough Business Of Film All Have Been Due To SGHI.

Now With The Passing (August 8th) Of The 30th Anniversary, It’s A Gift That Keeps On Giving. We Are Getting An Opportunity To Revisit These Memorable Characters Who Will Still Be Relevant And Avant Garde 3 Decades Later. With All That 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.

We Are Hyped That NETFLIX Is Onboard With This Vision As Nola Darling, Mars Blackmon, Jamie Overstreet And Greer Childs DO DA DAMN THANG Now, Today In Da Republic Of Brooklyn, New York.

It'll be exciting to see how this project develops.