Lee is moving forward with battle plans for MIRACLE AT ST. ANNA, based on author James McBride’s book. The story follows members of the Army’s 92nd Division of all-black soldiers, who were trapped in a Tuscan village and had to deal with racist superiors as well as the Nazis, who probably didn’t like them much either.
Further prompted by a black veteran’s complaint that Clint Eastwood’s recent Iwo Jima movies neglected the black soldiers who fought there, Lee went about securing more international financing for his big-budget flick. I bet he can find a role for Denzel Washington in there somewhere. Or at least Chiwetel Ejiofor.