{"id":514390,"date":"2019-11-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/numero.com\/culture\/spike-lees-hip-hop-version-of-romeo-and-juliette\/"},"modified":"2019-11-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","slug":"spike-lees-hip-hop-version-of-romeo-and-juliette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/numero.com\/en\/culture\/spike-lees-hip-hop-version-of-romeo-and-juliette\/","title":{"rendered":"Spike Lee&#8217;s hip-hop version of \u201cRomeo and Juliette\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n                    <figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;6a2148861ae0d&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"6a2148861ae0d\" class=\"wp-block-image size-medium-large wp-lightbox-container\">\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--pointerdown=\"actions.preloadImage\" data-wp-on--pointerenter=\"actions.preloadImageWithDelay\" data-wp-on--pointerleave=\"actions.cancelPreload\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/numero.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/spike-lee-film-prince-of-cats-numero-magazine1_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1568\" \/><button\n\t\t\tclass=\"lightbox-trigger\"\n\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\taria-haspopup=\"dialog\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-label=\"state.thisImage.triggerButtonAriaLabel\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-init=\"callbacks.initTriggerButton\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--right=\"state.thisImage.buttonRight\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--top=\"state.thisImage.buttonTop\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" fill=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 12 12\">\n\t\t\t\t<path fill=\"#fff\" d=\"M2 0a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v2h1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 1 .5-.5h2V0H2Zm2 10.5H2a.5.5 0 0 1-.5-.5V8H0v2a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h2v-1.5ZM8 12v-1.5h2a.5.5 0 0 0 .5-.5V8H12v2a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H8Zm2-12a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v2h-1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 0-.5-.5H8V0h2Z\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button>\n                    <figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Cover of the graphic novel &#8220;Prince of Cats&#8221; by Ron Wimberly.<\/figcaption>\n                    <\/figure>\n                    \n                    <p><strong>In Brooklyn in the 1980s, Romeo meets Juliette against a backdrop of graffiti, breakdance battles and the first DJ sets.&nbsp;<\/strong>We already know the story, two young people fall head over heels in love with each other. To a hip-hop soundtrack, the rival families declare war, sharpened katanas in hand. This is the pitch of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.numero.com\/cinema\/blakkklansman-spike-lee-adam-driver-festival-de-cannes-washington\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">American film director Spike Lee&rsquo;s&nbsp;<\/a>upcoming film to be released by the production company Legendary Pictures.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>The man behind&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.numero.com\/cinema\/blakkklansman-spike-lee-adam-driver-festival-de-cannes-washington\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the full-length feature movie&nbsp;<em>BlacKkKlansman<\/em>,<\/a>&nbsp;accoladed at Cannes&nbsp;<\/strong>and for which he won Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, has attacked the graphic novel,&nbsp;<em>Prince of Cats<\/em>&nbsp;by American writer Ron Wimberly. A book that reinvents the tragic plot of Shakespeare&rsquo;s play in a Wu-Tang Clan meets Jackie Chan-style romance.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>To adapt it for the big screen, the 62-year old director and the graphic novelist worked hand-in-hand with Selwyn Hinds<\/strong>, scriptwriter and former editor-in-chief of the hip-hop magazine,&nbsp;<em>The Source.&nbsp;<\/em>In the meantime, we&rsquo;ve got Spike Lee&rsquo;s most recent movie&nbsp;<em>Da 5 Bloods<\/em>&nbsp;about the Afro-American veterans of the Vietnam war, to look forward to exclusively on Netflix in 2020.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Brooklyn in the 1980s, Romeo meets Juliette against a backdrop of graffiti, breakdance battles [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/numero.com\/en\/culture\/spike-lees-hip-hop-version-of-romeo-and-juliette\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Spike Lee&#8217;s hip-hop version of \u201cRomeo and Juliette\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":514386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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