Spike Lee Forum

The very mention of Spike Lee, I find, elicits a whole galaxy of reactions from movie goers that typically ends up at one polar extreme or the other. His directorial style is said to be bossy and he can tackle some topics on the grungier side of The American Dream, but even critics have to respect his efforts to get Malcolm X to the screen in 1992. It's been a couple of years since Lee had a film in theaters, 2008's Miracle at St. Anna, but the director's been out there, lurking, apparently waiting for the right script to come along. Well, Deadline's reporting that Lee has found his script in Nagasaki Deadline, an action thriller that's been quietly shuffling its way through the back channels of Hollywood for the better part of a decade.

The story of Nagasaki Deadline revolves around a struggling FBI agent who's staring down the barrel of an upcoming terrorist plot on American soil and believes that the key to unravelling the mysteries behind the scheme rests in important historical events. With Alcon Entertainment financing and James Cameron and Jon Landau's Lightstorm Entertainment behind production this is shaping up to be the largest project Lee's ever worked on and it'll be interesting to see how it stands up against his previous--very good, might I add--thriller, Inside Man.

From that summary, it doesn't seem too bad.

If it's half as good as Inside Man, I'm all over it.

Didn't like Inside Man and thought Miracle at St. Anna was one of the worst movies of 2008. Adore his New York stories (25th Hour, Do the Right Thing). At the end of the day I think anything he's done that didn't heavily feature New York city as a backdrop was mostly mediocre in the way that most Oliver Stone movies are mostly mediocre when he's not talking about what he knows (war and media). Spike's definitely hit and miss with me, but I still consider Do the Right Thing a top 10 all-time flick.

There's only one man capable of solving mysteries through the use of past historical events.... 
 

@Everyones_A_Critic: His low bank account (new Cage spokes...thing) says 'yes, I can handle it'.

@Everyones_A_Critic: I was thinking the same thing.  Let's just hope Spike picks a better actor.

Inside Man was a pretty great flick! And the premise of this movie sounds neat.
 
But Miracle at St. Anna was awful.
 
So I will wait for reviews before I see it I think.

He can make some good stuff when he isn't trying to be an asshole.