When Spike Lee says 'this is a great Amerian story,' you might want to listen. The director unveiled the script for his unmade movie about…
Posting from his home in New York City, the Oscar winner said the film was a "dream project" that he hoped would reunite him with Washington, the star of Lee's 1992 filmThe script focuses on the legendary athlete who broke color barriers when he began playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.
That was Lee's hope when he wrote the script in 1996, but, he revealed in the video Sunday, "Denzel said he was too old" to play Robinson at the time. Ultimately, the project never got made. “Hello everyone, hope you are safe at home," Lee began the video, sitting in front of a poster of Alfred E. Green'sfrom 1950, which featured the slugger playing himself. "We've all had a lot of time to think about stuff. About life. What happened, what didn't happen. And I began to think about one of my dream projects."director continued, “I pulled this script out of the vault and so I'm going to share the script with you.
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