Spike Lee Stands By 'Red Hook Summer'

Director Spike Lee's "Red-colored-colored Hook Summer season" isn't all it appears being. The religiously-charged drama a great Atlanta boy shipped to invest the summer season along with his Brooklyn-based estranged grandfather, a preacher, features a dark secret at its core, the one that Lee needs to "continue lock." "Situations are evolution," the celebrated NY filmmaker told MTV News within the Sundance Film Festival about his movie's roots. "I am unsure anyone who the first time they sit lower to talk has [an account] planned from beginning, middle and finished. It absolutely was the evolution from the germ from the idea which we saved building layer upon layer upon layer." Where did that germ from the idea result from, you request? Remarkably, the answer then is the best horror novelist Stephen King, no less than simply. "We wanted to produce a film about youthful black kids, like 'Stand By Me,'" mentioned Lee. "I like that film. Where's individuals of color version of the film? I'm not to imply here you go, but that's the type of film If only to see that. James which i preferred to look at this film in the theater. We wanted the earth to find out these figures in this particular isolated part of Brooklyn, Red-colored-colored Hook." Lee's Sundance entry is not the only real much spoken about project on his radar at this time. The filmmaker is presently concentrating on the American adaptation of "Oldboy," starring Josh Brolin and potentially Mia Wasikowska. When the subject was elevated, Lee's lips were shut tight. "We'll see. Still concentrating on it," he mentioned in the film's progress. "People are obsessed relating to this film and they've let me know. We're unafraid of anything, but at this time around we're focusing on 'Red Hook Summer season.'" The 2012 Sundance Film Festival is formally showed up, as well as the MTV Movies team is on the ground verifying around typically the most popular stars as well as the movies everyone will probably be talking about around later on. Maintain it locked with MTV Movies for everything there's to learn about Sundance.