Spike Lee will be producing a civil rights drama ‘Son of the South’ with editor Barry Alexander Brown serving as director for the project. Both Brown and Lee are nominated for Oscar’s for ‘Blackkklansman’.
Per Variety:
“Son of the South” is based on the Bob Zellner autobiography, “The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement.” The Alabama native and grandson of a Ku Klux Klan member is pulled into the center of the civil rights movement in 1961. He was inspired by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks, and invigorated by local black high school students marching to protest the murder of tenant farmer Herbert Lee.
This isn’t the first project Lee and Brown have collaborated on. Along with ‘Blackkklansman’, they’re work dates back to 1986 with ‘She’s Gotta Have It’, ‘Do the Right Thing,’ ‘Malcolm X,’ and ‘Inside Man.’ Brown also co-directed the Academy Award-nominated documentary ‘The War at Home.’
