{"id":48164,"date":"2020-11-17T22:04:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T03:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=48164"},"modified":"2020-11-19T13:53:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T18:53:44","slug":"spike-lee-movie-musical-viagra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2020\/11\/17\/spike-lee-movie-musical-viagra\/","title":{"rendered":"Spike Lee To Direct Movie Musical About Viagra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Spike-Lee-Viagra.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48166\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Spike-Lee-Viagra.jpg\" alt=\"Spike Lee, Viagra musical\" width=\"678\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spike Lee is set to direct and co-write a musical about the development of popular erectile dysfunction drug Viagra.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, you read that right.<\/p>\n<p>Lee and his co-writer, British playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah, have adopted <a href=\"https:\/\/classic.esquire.com\/article\/2018\/9\/1\/all-rise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">the <em>Esquire<\/em> article<\/a> &#8220;All Rise: The Untold Story of the Guys Who Launched Viagra&#8221; by writer David Kushner. The piece, published in September 2018, charted the development of Viagra by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer from a drug designed to help stop heart-related chest pain to discovering one of its more beneficial side effects.<\/p>\n<p>Stew Stewart and Heidi Rodewald, who created the Tony-winning musical <em>Passing Strange<\/em>, will be creating the original songs and music for this untitled project.<\/p>\n<p>While Lee has never directed a straight-up musical film, he did direct the film recording of the recent Broadway hit <strong>David Byrne&#8217;s American Utopia<\/strong> (see our review <a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2020\/10\/11\/david-byrne-american-uptopia-film-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>). In that, he managed to do a great job capturing that show&#8217;s energy and staging, so based on this it seems that he has demonstrated some skills for this upcoming project.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2020\/11\/spike-lee-viagra-musical-film-pfizer-eone-pre-covid-miracle-drug-kwame-kwei-armah-1234616563\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Sometimes, you just write headlines you never imagined you would write.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2020\/11\/17\/spike-lee-movie-musical-viagra\/\" title=\"Spike Lee To Direct Movie Musical About Viagra\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[671],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-spike-lee"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48164"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=48164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}