Spike Lee's unrealized projects: Difference between revisions

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===''Playhouse '90s'' TV series===

In 1992, it was reported that Lee had written and was expected to direct an episode of [[Francis Ford Coppola]]'s planned revival of the [[Anthology series|anthology drama series]] ''[[Playhouse 90]]'', ''Playhouse '90s'', a series of "live, one-hour dramatic plays" for [[CBS]].<ref>{{cite magazine|author=Archerd, Army|author-link=Army Archerd|url=https://variety.com/1992/voices/columns/disney-does-its-civic-duty-1117862272/|title=Disney does its civic duty|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=June 10, 1992|access-date=January 6, 2025}}</ref> The project never came to fruition.

===''Micheaux''===

In the mid-1990s, playwright and screenwriter [[Robert O'Hara]] penned an unproduced screenplay on the life of [[Oscar Micheaux]], often regarded as the first major African-American feature filmmaker, which Lee was attached to direct.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sites.nd.edu/artnow/robert-ohara/|title=Robert O'Hara - ND Anti-Racist Theatre NOW|website=[[University of Notre Dame]]|access-date=April 26, 2025|quote=He has also written several projects for the screen, including an unproduced screenplay based on the life of Richard Pryor set to be directed by Martin Scorsese, and a script for the unproduced Oscar Micheaux biopic to which the equally legendary black filmmaker Spike Lee was attached.}}</ref>

===''The Jackie Robinson Story''===