{"id":103759,"date":"2025-08-28T19:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/103759\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T19:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:01:06","slug":"spike-lee-sounds-bummed-about-shelved-colin-kaepernick-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/103759\/","title":{"rendered":"Spike Lee sounds bummed about shelved Colin Kaepernick series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spike Lee<\/a>\u2018s Colin Kaepernick docuseries is \u201cnot coming out.\u201d And if you didn\u2019t understand, here\u2019s some further clarification from the man himself: \u201cLet me give you a Spanish word: Nada. N-A-D-A. Let me give you a Brooklyn word. N-U-T-T-I-N. Nuttin\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lee shared all of this in a new interview with Vulture<\/a>, in which he explained that while he can say the series isn\u2019t coming out in whatever language or dialect he wants, that\u2019s pretty much all he can comment on the matter. \u201cReach out to ESPN or Colin Kaepernick,\u201d he added. \u201cThat\u2019s all I can contractually say.\u201d\u00a0When Lee\u2019s interviewer asked him how he felt about the shelving, he did come up with a rather creative workaround. \u201cLook at my face,\u201d he said, before making what the outlet described as \u201ca very sad facial expression.\u201d \u201cWe worked over a year on that,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month<\/a>, it was reported that ESPN had kicked the docuseries\u2014tentatively titled Da Saga Of Colin Kaepernick\u2014from its roster. ESPN said in a statement that it was the result of Lee, Kaepernick, and the network \u201ccollectively\u201d deciding to \u201cno longer proceed with the project as a result of creative differences,\u201d though Lee\u2019s more recent comments suggest that the decision may not have been quite as collective as ESPN implied. (The network declined to offer any additional statement when reached by\u00a0The A.V. Club.) Puck News reported<\/a> in 2024 that Lee and Kaepernick, who made headlines when he took a knee during the national anthem in 2016 in protest of police violence and racial inequity, disagreed on the direction of the proposed eight-episode series. Kaepernick reportedly wanted the project to focus on his own experience in the NFL while Lee wanted to tell a broader story of injustice to Black athletes in professional sports. At the time, the outlet also reported that ESPN would allow Lee and Kaepernick to shop the project elsewhere, but it doesn\u2019t sound like that will be happening anytime soon.<\/p>\n

Still, despite any disappointment he can\u2019t contractually talk about related to the shelved project, Lee is doing just fine. His latest collaboration with Denzel Washington, Highest 2 Lowest, is out in theaters now. \u201cShoot, when I\u2019m working, I don\u2019t need an alarm clock to get me up,\u201d Lee said. \u201cI\u2019m ready. Because I\u2019m doing what I love.\u201d <\/p>\n

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