Spike Lee In Talks To Direct Marvel’s Nightwatch For Sony With Script Written By Luke Cage Showrunner Cheo Hodari CokerPosted by Wilson Morales
March 14, 2018
Source: THR
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Spike Lee is in talks to direct Sony’s Marvel film, Nightwatch, with Luke Cage showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker writing the script.
Lee is currently at work on Black Klansman, a film based on the true story of an African-American detective who infiltrated the KKK in 1978.
Here’s the official character description from Marvel on Nightwatch:
Over ten years ago, African American scientist Dr. Kevin Trench was attacked by the invisible Camouflage Cadre and rescued by a man called Nightwatch, who drove the Cadre back through a time portal before dying. Trench discovered his rescuer was an older version of himself. When his lover Ashley Croix’s plane was hijacked by A.I.M., Trench donned the Nightwatch’s super-powered battle-suit and confronted the hijackers, but the inexperienced Trench triggered an explosion, killing all aboard.
Guilt-stricken, Trench exiled himself and the apparently indestructible battle-suit to a remote island. Croix, who had changed planes at the last minute, later married industrialist Damon Morelle and bore his son, Nolan, whose illness required frequent skin grafts. Financed by the secretive cabal Fold, Morelle initiated Project: Sharkskin to cure Nolan via a nano-technological bodysuit, destined to become Nightwatch’s battle-suit.
Nightwatch is among Sony’s stable of Spider-Man-related Marvel characters. In addition to a 2019 Spider-Man: Homecoming sequel, the studio also has the Tom Hardy vehicle Venom due out Oct. 5, and Silver & Black, from director Gina Prince-Bythewood, set for Feb. 8 2019.
