Spike Lee’s production company, 40 Acres and a Mule, has acquired rights to Brendan Koerner’s “Now the Hell Will Start,” a nonfiction book about a private who went native in the jungle of South Asia during World War II.
Koerner, a contributing editor at Wired, tells the story of Private Herman Perry, a black soldier from Washington who, after shooting another soldier, went on the run in the Indo-Burmese jungle and eventually became assimilated into tribal culture.
Lee will develop the material as a feature film, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The book was published last summer by Penguin Press.
In other Spike Lee news, the filmmaker returns as a judge for the second annual Babelgum online film festival, which launched Monday with some 630 entries that will vie for 100,000 euros ($128,000) in prize money split between four categories.
As with the first edition, Lee will select the winners in each category after entries are whittled to 10-film shortlists by a wider jury of professionals and from online voting. The films will be screened and voted on until April 2.
“The submissions to the festival once again prove that independent filmmakers are excited to have found a new place to showcase their work,” Lee said.
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