Spike Lee Gifts Unmade ‘Jackie Robinson’ Script To Stay-At-Homers’ Sunday Reading
Sadly, for fans of cinema and America’s pastime, as Spike tells it, “Denzel said he was too old” to play Robinson and the project never made it to home plate.
“I pulled this script out of the vault and so, I’d like to share the script with you,” Lee declared today from his sofa in front of a huge framed poster of the Alfred E. Green directedfrom 1950, starring the great man himself as himself. “And also, don’t worry about it if you don’t like baseball or sports,” the passionate sports fan added in a year that saw the March 26 MLB opening day and a new season postponed because of the global health crisis. “This is a great American story.
Yes, indeed – perhaps even more so in an overwhelmed NYC and stay-at-home USA pummeled Sunday with even more tragic news of now over 137,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 domestically and more than 2,350 deaths.movie. “If you don’t, that’s alright too. It’s never getting made, but I wanted to share this script with you. Be safe! Be safe! Social distancing! Peace.”
Indeed, maybe once again Spike will be leading the way and we’ll soon see other filmmakers pull their unmade dream projects out of their respective vaults to share. Hell, maybe even a few of them may get made once we pull out of all this.
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