Spike Lee returns to screens soon with “Da 5 Bloods” which is going straight to Netflix and follows on from one of his biggest box-office successes with the Oscar-winning “BlacKkKlansman”.
Lee has no problem with people watching the film at home, in fact he reveals during a new interview with Vanity Fair that not only is filming on his next film “Prince of Cats” on hold, he’s not sur when he’s going to back on a film set.
In fact he’s not sure when he’s going to be back at any public event, including a cinema screening, and thinks nothing much will happen in the film industry until there’s a vaccine:
“They ain’t doing a thing until the vaccine. I know I’m not going to a movie theater. I know I’m not going to a Broadway show. I know I’m not going to Yankee Stadium. Corona is a bitch. Corona is not playing. You f–k around you’re going to get killed, you’re going to die. I’m not ready to go.”
Lee also sees logistical problems with shooting all sorts of scenes whilst filmmaking, particularly sex scenes:
“How are you going to do a love scene anymore, or an intimate scene?. I mean, are you going to do a movie by remote, like ‘Saturday Night Live?’… I don’t know how you do that. So, we’re on pause now.”
“Da 5 Bloods” is set to be released on Netflix on June 12th. Lee’s “Prince of Cats,” which has been dubbed a “Romeo and Juliette during the age of hip-hop,” hasn’t set a release date.
