{"id":28357,"date":"2025-01-17T15:51:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T20:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=28357"},"modified":"2025-01-17T15:51:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T20:51:27","slug":"spike-lee-plans-to-make-a-military-comedy-drama-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=28357","title":{"rendered":"Spike Lee Plans to Make a Military Comedy Drama, &#8220;Liberty&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">\u00a9Courtesy of Apple TV+<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The renowned film maker <a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?s=Spike+Lee\">Spike Lee<\/a> is reportedly working on the comedic military drama movie &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/01\/spike-lee-developing-liberty-rebecca-murga-jalysa-conway-1236258846\/\"><strong>Liberty<\/strong><\/a>,&#8221; which he may direct or produce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/01\/spike-lee-developing-liberty-rebecca-murga-jalysa-conway-1236258846\/\">Deadline<\/a> reported that the project is being pitched by military veterans and writers Rebecca Murga and Jalysa Conway, who will write the script. Don\u2019t expect \u201c<strong>Liberty<\/strong>\u201d to have the same vibes as \u201c<strong>Da 5 Bloods<\/strong>,\u201d but the film is said to be similar to Hal Ashby&#8217;s 1973 Navy drama &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0070290\/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1\"><strong>The Last Detail<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;&#8221;, which was nominated for an Oscar, and depicts a group of cadets on a wild night in New York City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Lee, Murga, and Conway are working on the second project. The first one is a drama series that revolves around the Reserve Officers&#8217; Training Corps (ROTC) from Amazon. Marriagea&#8217;s writing credits include ABC&#8217;s &#8220;<strong>Will Trent&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0and Apple TV+ series &#8220;<strong>Swagger<\/strong>&#8221; while Conway has worked as a supervising producer and writer on &#8216;Grey&#8217;s Anatomy&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Lee and Steven Jackson will produce through their 40 Acres And A Mule Filmworks label. Lee most recently filmed \u201c<strong>Highest 2 Lowest<\/strong>,\u201d a Denzel Washington-led crime thriller remake of Akira Kurosawa\u2019s 1963 classic \u201c<strong>High and Low<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Other recent work for Lee beyond \u201c<strong>Da 5 Bloods<\/strong>\u201d includes 2018\u2019s \u201c<b>BlacKKKlansman<\/b>,\u201d which won the director an\u00a0<b>Oscar<\/b>\u00a0for Best Adapted Screenplay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">There is no information on where &#8220;<strong>Liberty<\/strong>&#8221; will be released by studios, but if Lee directs it, everyone in Hollywood will compete for it except for him, Murga, and Conway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/nobuhosokigmail-com\/\">Check out more of Nobuhiro&#8217;s articles.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9Courtesy of Apple TV+ The renowned film maker Spike Lee is reportedly working on the comedic military drama movie &#8220;Liberty,&#8221; which he may direct or produce. Deadline reported that the project is being pitched by military veterans and writers Rebecca Murga and Jalysa Conway, who will write the script. Don\u2019t expect \u201cLiberty\u201d to have the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,20471],"tags":[7751,7439,25750,25748,25749,214,25752,25751],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Spike Lee Plans to Make a Military Comedy Drama, &quot;Liberty&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The renowned film maker Spike Lee is reportedly working on the comedic military drama movie &quot;Liberty,&quot; which he may direct or produce.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=28357\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spike Lee Plans to Make a Military Comedy Drama, &quot;Liberty&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The renowned film maker Spike Lee is reportedly working on the comedic military drama movie &quot;Liberty,&quot; 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