Director Spike Lee Is Resolute In Making The Joe Louis Film He Promised Budd Schulberg He'd Get Done - East Side Boxing News

Director Spike Lee Is Resolute In Making The Joe Louis Film He Promised Budd Schulberg He'd Get Done - East Side Boxing News

Over the years, indeed over the decades, we have seen numerous boxing films get made; some of ... continue Director Spike Lee Is Resolute In Making The Joe Louis Film He Promised Budd Schulberg He’d Get Done @ Boxing News 24/7

Spike Lee Says His Joe Louis Biopic is a "Major Priority"

I absolutely love Spike Lee. Hels is one of the great auteurs still working, and every movie he makes seems to have a gravity and a touch that make it a must-see. While it's hard to believe, Lee has a movie he's been chasing for half his life that he's been dying to get made. That movie is a biopic of the boxer Joe Louis. Lee actually co-wrote with the late screenwriter Budd Schulberg, who also wrote On the Waterfront. The movie is about the rel…

Spike Lee Says “Major Priority” Is Finally Making His Joe Louis Biopic Penned by ‘On The Waterfront’ Screenwriter — World of Reel

For Spike Lee, somewhere in his drawer, alongside a few other unrealized dream projects, sits “Save Us, Joe Louis,” a film he’s been trying to make for over two decades.More enticingly, Oscar-winning screenwriter Budd Schulberg, who wrote “On the Waterfront,” penned the screenplay. Schulberg, in his nineties at the time, would call Lee regularly to ask if the film had been greenlit yet. “Spike, have you got the money?” Lee recalls him asking.And…