“You get tired of going to the movies and seeing stuff that you don’t want to see or not seeing the stuff you want to be dealt with. When the subject matter you love is not being done right, you have to make your own movies.”
Writer/director Spike Lee
(I don’t remember where I first read this quote, but it’s at least 15 years old. Found it in handwritten in an old notebook today. What I used to do just for myself before I had this blog. )
Spike Lee’s latest film, BlacKkKlansman has a 97% Rotten Tomato rating from all critics. And it opened this weekend in 1,512 theaters making a respectable $10 million. Charlie Wachtel and David Rabinowitz developed the original spec script based on the memoir of Ron Stallworth. (Read the IndieWire interview to see how they contacted Stallworth directly and pitched their idea to him.)
Lee and Kevin Willmott are also credited as writers on the finished film.
Screenwriting from Iowa 
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