Spike Lee Takes it back to World War II

Spike Lee is to make a World War II movie which emphasises on the role that African-American soldiers played in the conflict. The untitled project doesn’t have a title as of yet but it’s known that the movie will focus on the Italian campaign that played out in 1944 and 1945.

While talking to an Italian newspaper, Spike Lee said,

“If you look at the history of Hollywood, the black soldiers who fought World War II are totally invisible. This is the paradox: black people who were fighting for democracy but at the same time were second class citizens at home.”

Spike Lee is known for his upfront attitude, with his recent dig at Clint Eastwood’s two WWII films, Flags of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima,

“I recently met a black veteran who fought at Iwo Jima and he told me how hurt he was that he could not find a single African-American in Clint Eastwood’s two films.”

The movie, based on the James McBride book Miracle at St. Anna, is about the all-black 92nd Buffalo Division.

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