Variety reports that Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, Shooter) will be directing an adaptation of the graphic novel Miss: Better Living Through Crime, with Spike Lee (25th Hour, Inside Man) executive producing. The film “revolves around Nola and Slim, two unlikely partners in crime in the early 1900s in New York. Nola is a poor white girl who has learned to survive by hook or by crook since being expelled from the orphanage. Slim is a black pimp with an uncertain past, trying to keep one foot out of the grave.” They team up as killers for hire. John Ridley is writing the script, who also penned the script for the upcoming George Lucas WWII actioner, Red Tails.
Fuqua has been out of touch lately with films like Shooter, but his most recent Brooklyn’s Finest premiered at Sundance to good reviews is set to be released this March. I’m also down for Spike Lee producing as I love most of his work (except for the dreadfully boring Miracle at St. Anna).
What do you think about this partnership and the film?