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Stefon Bristol, Spike Lee Team for 'Gordon Hemingway' at Netflix
Stefon Bristol is set to direct the Netflix feature Gordon Hemingway & The Realm of Cthulhu, with Spike Lee attached to produce.
Set in East Africa in 1928, Gordon Hemingway follows the titular character, a roguish Black American gunslinger as he teams up with the elite warrior Princess Zenebe of Ethiopia to rescue their kidnapped regent from an ancient evil.
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Hank Woon wrote the original screenplay with additional revisions by both Woon and Fredrica Bailey.
Lee will produce with Lloyd Levin and Beatriz Levin, both of whom worked with Lee on his Netflix feature Da 5 Bloods and originally optioned the screenplay from Woon.
Bristol, repped by UTA and Ellipsis Entertainment Group, worked with Netflix on his first feature, the sci-fi title See You Yesterday, which earned an Independent Spirit award for best first screenplay.
Woon is repped by APA.
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