Spike Lee Stands By 'Red Hook Summer'

Director Spike Lee's "Red-colored Hook Summer time" is not all it seems to become. The religiously-billed drama a good Atlanta boy delivered to spend the summer time together with his Brooklyn-based estranged grandfather, a preacher, includes a dark secret at its core, one which Lee expects to "continue lock." "Things are evolution," the celebrated NY filmmaker told MTV News in the Sundance Film Festival about his movie's roots. "I'm not sure anybody who the very first time they sit lower to speak has [a tale] planned from beginning, middle and finish. It had been the evolution of the germ of the idea and that we stored building layer upon layer upon layer." Where did that germ of the idea originate from, you request? Surprisingly, the reply is the one and only horror novelist Stephen King, a minimum of simply. "We wanted to create a film about youthful black kids, like 'Stand By Me,'" stated Lee. "I really like that film. Where's the folks of color version of this film? I am not to imply here it is, but that is the kind of film I wish to observe that. James and that i desired to check this out film inside a theater. We wanted the planet to determine these figures within this isolated a part of Brooklyn, Red-colored Hook." Lee's Sundance entry isn't the only much talked about project on his radar right now. The filmmaker is presently focusing on the American adaptation of "Oldboy," starring Josh Brolin and potentially Mia Wasikowska. Once the subject was raised, Lee's lips were shut tight. "We'll see. Still focusing on it," he stated from the film's progress. "Individuals are obsessed about this film and they have tell me. We are unafraid of anything, but at this time we are concentrating on 'Red Hook Summer time.'" The 2012 Sundance Film Festival is formally arrived, and also the MTV Movies team is on the floor confirming around the most popular stars and also the movies everybody is going to be speaking about around in the future. Ensure that it stays locked with MTV Movies for everything there's to understand about Sundance.