Spike Lee Hopes to Direct a Big Screen Musical Adaptation of Porgy and Bess
Two-time Oscar-nominated director Spike Lee is in negotiations to turn the Gershwin musical Porgy and Bess into a film, according to IndieWire.com. The musical has been a passion project for Lee for over a decade and after seeing the current Broadway revival, Lee has begun negations with the Gerswhin estate to bring the opera back to the big screen. Porgy and Bess was adapted into a major motion picture in 1957, star…