Netflix has greenlit a new series based on Spike Lee’s 1986 indie film, She’s Gotta Have It.
The streamer has ordered 10 episodes, Variety has confirmed. Lee will direct each half-hour episode and serve as an executive producer on the project. His wife and producing partner Tonya Lewis Lee will join him.
The “She’s Gotta Have It” series centers on Nola Darling, the protagonist of the original film. Nola is a Brooklyn-based artist in her late twenties struggling to define herself. Outside of her personal struggles, she’s has one problem–she can’t decide who to date. So, she doesn’t decide. She dates all three men at the same time.
The first is Greer Childs a rich, cultured model. Then there’s Jamie Overstreet an overprotective investment banker. Last, there’s Mars Blackmon, a geek with a heart of gold played by Spike Lee in the original.
Lee released the following statement on the deal:
“SHE’S GOTTA HAVE IT Has A Very Special Place In My Heart. We Shot This Film In 12 Days (2 Six Day Weeks) Way Back In The Back Back Of The Hot Summer Of 1985 For A Mere Total of $175,000. Funds That We Begged, Borrowed and Whatnot To Get That Money. This Is The 1st Official Spike Lee Feature Film Joint And Everything That We Have Been Blessed With In This Tough Business Of Film All Have Been Due To SGHI.
Now With The Passing (August 8th) Of The 30th Anniversary, It’s A Gift That Keeps On Giving. We Are Getting An Opportunity To Revisit These Memorable Characters Who Will Still Be Relevant And Avant Garde 3 Decades Later. With All That Said It Was My Wife, Tonya Lewis Lee, Producer In Her Own Right, Who Had The Vision To Take My Film From The Big Screen And Turn It Into An Episodic Series. It Had Not Occurred To Me At All. Tonya Saw It Plain As Day. I Didn’t.
We Are Hyped That NETFLIX Is Onboard With This Vision As Nola Darling, Mars Blackmon, Jamie Overstreet And Greer Childs DO DA DAMN THANG Now, Today In Da Republic Of Brooklyn, New York.”
